Swallow
Subtitle: foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them
By: Mary Cappello
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781595583956
Subjects: Bronchoscopy; Foreign Bodies; Psychology; Deglutition; Throat; Surgery; Mütter Museum; Exhibits as Topic; Self-Injurious Behavior; Foreign bodies
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Who was that man?; title: 2. How does someone swallow that?; title: What are these things?; title: 3. Mystery bones and the unrecovered boy.