[PDF.81hh] The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

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 | #1534408 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2004-09-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.72 x5.98l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Guilty pleasures justified|By Harry Eagar|Jan Bondeson, a prolific, multilingual medical lecturer, has made a career of popularizing medical curiosities, but unlike other popularizers, he has also published technical studies of the same subjects -- some famous, some unearthed from ancient libraries -- in professional journals.

Thus, he brings a dose of medical sophis|.com |Please, don't stare. Dr. Jan Bondeson, author of The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels, aims to humanize his subjects and move beyond the standard exploitation of people with extremely visible medical anomalies. Though one might say that he

A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.

Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience....

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels   |  Jan Bondeson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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