The Body Factory: From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented Human - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Heloise Chochois, Kendra BoileauAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2021-05-03Pages:168
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Mundi - Psu PressISBN-13:9780271087061ISBN-10:271087064UPC:9780271087061Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, ScienceBook Subcategory:Nonfiction, Life SciencesBook Topic:Anatomy & Physiology, Human Anatomy & PhysiologySize:9.80 x 6.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SC411Y5DM8
A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakesup in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then aportrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him. The subject ofthe painting introduces himself as Ambroise Par?, the Frenchbarber-surgeon who revolutionized the art of amputation. From this wonderfullyabsurd premise, the two begin an imaginary conversation that takes them througha sweeping history of surgical amputation, from the Stone Age to the Space Age.Unencumbered by pathos or didacticism, this graphic novel explores the world ofamputation, revealing fascinating details about famous amputees throughouthistory, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types ofprostheses, and transhumanist technologies.
Playfully illustrated and seriously funny, TheBody Factory is sure to delight anyone interested in the history and future ofmedicine and how we repair? 9;and evenenhance? 9;the body.
Playfully illustrated and seriously funny, TheBody Factory is sure to delight anyone interested in the history and future ofmedicine and how we repair? 9;and evenenhance? 9;the body.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Mundi - Psu PressISBN-13:9780271087061ISBN-10:271087064UPC:9780271087061Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, ScienceBook Subcategory:Nonfiction, Life SciencesBook Topic:Anatomy & Physiology, Human Anatomy & PhysiologySize:9.80 x 6.70 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SC411Y5DM8
Héloïse Chochois is a scientific illustrator who debuted as a graphic novelist with the blog Infiltrée chez les physiciens. She is the author and illustrator of Intelligences artificielles.
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