Prosthetics
By: by Kim K. Zach.
Series: Great medical discoveries
Publisher: Lucent Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Prosthesis -- History -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Prosthetic history: a human need for wholeness; title: The dark ages of amputation surgery: of armor and iron; title: Early modern medicine: new surgical techniques and improved prosthetics; title: The civil war and its aftermath: prosthetic entrepreneurship; title: The industrial age and two world wars: prosthetics becomes a science; title: The modern age of prosthetics: research and development; title: Bionics and beyond: the future of artificial limbs.