Swallow : foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them / Mary Cappello.

  • Cappello, Mary.
Date:
2011
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About this work

Description

Discusses what it means to ingest things humans weren't meant to eat, and how the line between human bodies and foreign bodies can sometimes blur.

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : New Press, 2011.

Physical description

x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

1. Who was that man? -- 2. How does someone swallow that? -- What are these things? -- 3. Mystery bones and the unrecovered boy.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-276) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    SH.V
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ISBN

  • 9781595583956
  • 1595583955