Stories
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
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The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
Catalogue
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War wounds and air raid casualties.
Date: 1939- Books
War wounds and injuries / edited by E. Fletcher and R.W. Raven.
Date: [l940]- Books
War wounds and their treatment in the Aegean Bronze Age / Robert Arnott.
Arnott, Robert, 1951-Date: 1999- Books
War wounds and injuries / edited by R. Maingot, E.G. Slesinger and Ernest Fletcher.
Date: 1943- Books
War wounds : medicine and the trauma of conflict / edited by Ashley Ekins and Elizabeth Stewart.
Date: 2011