A History of Limb Amputation

John R Kirkup

ISBN 10: 1849966028 / ISBN 13: 9781849966023

Verlag: Springer London, 2010

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A History of Limb Amputation | John R Kirkup | Taschenbuch | viii | Englisch | 2010 | Springer London | EAN 9781849966023 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 107145535

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A History of Limb Amputation
• Verlag: Springer London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1849966028
• ISBN-13: 9781849966023
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 254B x 178 H x 10 T Millimeter Breite: 254 mm, Höhe: 178 mm, Tiefe: 10 mm
• Gewicht: 345 Gramm
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The first part of the book presents a unique and coherent study of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, toxins, domestic and wild animal trauma, and non-medical reasons related to punitive, ritual and legal decisions. Following the introduction of gun powder in the 15th century, surgical action became significant. The subsequent development of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book, summarizing the evolution of the control of hemorrhage and infection, pain relief, techniques, instrumentation, complications, prostheses, results and case histories. In addition, alternative procedures, increasingly important in the last two centuries, are debated and factors associated with self-amputation in extremis, not as rare according to press reports, are also examined.

This richly illustrated book will be of interest to medical and social historians, surgeons, limb-fitting surgeons and prosthetists, anesthetists, limb manufacturers, social historians, ethnologists and amputees.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Kirkup, MD, MA, FRCS, Dip Hist Med studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary’s Hospital, London, qualifying in 1952. After service in the Royal Navy he worked as an orthopedic surgeon for the Bath Clinical Area, Somerset, introducing ankle joint replacement to the United Kingdom in 1976.

Always intrigued by the evolution of surgery from its pre-historic roots, Mr Kirkup edited facsimiles of Wiseman’s Of Wounds (1676) and Woodall’s Surgions Mate (1617), published A Historical Guide to British Orthopaedic Surgery, and contributed chapters in books on Ambroise Paré, on pain management during surgery, on trepanation, on the battle against infection, on damaged surgeon’s equipment of the Mary Rose shipwreck and on instrumentation generally. He published a wide variety of journal communications including and extended series on surgical instruments and on the history of foot and ankle surgery, and twelve surgical entries in the New Dictionary of National Biography. He has been Hunterian, Vicary, Sydenham and Hamilton Russell Lecturer, was awarded the Sir Arthur Keith Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and has advised widely on museum collections, especially in the UK, Portugal and Australia.

Formerly President of the British Society for Medical History, President of the History Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Honorary Archivist of the British Orthopaedic Association and Chairman of the Historical Medical Equipment Society, Mr Kirkup is currently Honorary Curator of the Historical Instrument Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and Lecture in Surgical History to the Society of Apothecaries, London. He is also about to publish a book on the evolution of surgical instruments.