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Heavy Reckoning

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What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?

As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death.

Historian Emily Mayhew explores the reality of medicine and injury in wartime, from the trenches of World War One to the plains of Afghanistan and the rehabilitation wards of Headley Court in Surrey. Mixing vivid and compelling stories of unexpected survival with astonishing insights from the front line of medicine, A Heavy Reckoning is a book about how far we have come in saving, healing and restoring the human body.

From the plastic surgeon battling to restore function to a blasted hand to the double amputee learning to walk again on prosthetic legs, Mayhew gives us a new understanding of the limits of human life and the extraordinary costs paid physically and mentally by casualties all over the world.

Sinopsis del producto

What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?

As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death.

Historian Emily Mayhew explores the reality of medicine and injury in wartime, from the trenches of World War One to the plains of Afghanistan and the rehabilitation wards of Headley Court in Surrey. Mixing vivid and compelling stories of unexpected survival with astonishing insights from the front line of medicine, A Heavy Reckoning is a book about how far we have come in saving, healing and restoring the human body.

From the plastic surgeon battling to restore function to a blasted hand to the double amputee learning to walk again on prosthetic legs, Mayhew gives us a new understanding of the limits of human life and the extraordinary costs paid physically and mentally by casualties all over the world.

9781781255865

War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond

Mayhew, Emily

life; death; war; Iraq; Afghanistan; Syria; soldiers; civilians; technology; Emily Mayhew; medicine; injury; World War One; Headley Court; rehabilitation wards; true stories; survival; history; saving; healing; human body; plastic surgeon; surgery; double amputee; paraplegic; amputation; prosthetic leg; paralympics; Wellcome Collection; MERT; IED; chinook; Field hospital; Camp Bastion; intubation; trauma; ptsd; CCAST; mark ormrod; Scott Meenagh; Thomas Meenagh; Dave Henson; nhs; surround and save; Robert Lawrence; augusta dejerine klumpke; emergency

Descripción del producto

What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?

As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death.

Historian Emily Mayhew explores the reality of medicine and injury in wartime, from the trenches of World War One to the plains of Afghanistan and the rehabilitation wards of Headley Court in Surrey. Mixing vivid and compelling stories of unexpected survival with astonishing insights from the front line of medicine, A Heavy Reckoning is a book about how far we have come in saving, healing and restoring the human body.

From the plastic surgeon battling to restore function to a blasted hand to the double amputee learning to walk again on prosthetic legs, Mayhew gives us a new understanding of the limits of human life and the extraordinary costs paid physically and mentally by casualties all over the world.

Sinopsis del producto

What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?

As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring people back from ever closer encounters with death.

Historian Emily Mayhew explores the reality of medicine and injury in wartime, from the trenches of World War One to the plains of Afghanistan and the rehabilitation wards of Headley Court in Surrey. Mixing vivid and compelling stories of unexpected survival with astonishing insights from the front line of medicine, A Heavy Reckoning is a book about how far we have come in saving, healing and restoring the human body.

From the plastic surgeon battling to restore function to a blasted hand to the double amputee learning to walk again on prosthetic legs, Mayhew gives us a new understanding of the limits of human life and the extraordinary costs paid physically and mentally by casualties all over the world.

9781781255865

War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond

Mayhew, Emily

life; death; war; Iraq; Afghanistan; Syria; soldiers; civilians; technology; Emily Mayhew; medicine; injury; World War One; Headley Court; rehabilitation wards; true stories; survival; history; saving; healing; human body; plastic surgeon; surgery; double amputee; paraplegic; amputation; prosthetic leg; paralympics; Wellcome Collection; MERT; IED; chinook; Field hospital; Camp Bastion; intubation; trauma; ptsd; CCAST; mark ormrod; Scott Meenagh; Thomas Meenagh; Dave Henson; nhs; surround and save; Robert Lawrence; augusta dejerine klumpke; emergency

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life;death;war;Iraq;Afghanistan;Syria;soldiers;civilians;technology;Emily Mayhew;medicine;injury;World War One;Headley Court;rehabilitation wards;true stories;survival;history;saving;healing;human body;plastic surgeon;surgery;double amputee;paraplegic;amputation;prosthetic leg;paralympics;Wellcome Collection;MERT;IED;chinook;Field hospital;Camp Bastion;intubation;trauma;ptsd;CCAST;mark ormrod;Scott Meenagh;Thomas Meenagh;Dave Henson;nhs;surround and save;Robert Lawrence;augusta dejerine klumpke;emergency

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Tapa blanda o Bolsillo
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña
Castellano
Producto a la venta formado por un único componente
Wellcome Collection
03/05/2018
128128 X 196196 X 2626
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ISBN 9781781255865

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