(Ebook free) The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels
❀ Jan Bondeson ❀
| #1904516 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2000-06-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .99 x6.28 x9.25l,1.30 | File Name: 0801437679 | 320 pages | Human deformities
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Guilty pleasures justified|By Harry Eagar|Jan Bondeson, a prolific, multilingual medical lecturer, has made a career of popularizing medical curiosities, but unlike other popularizers, he has also published technical studies of the same subjects -- some famous, some unearthed from ancient libraries -- in professional journals.
Thus, he brings a dose of medical sophi|.com |Please, don't stare. Dr. Jan Bondeson, author of The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels, aims to humanize his subjects and move beyond the standard exploitation of people with extremely visible medical anomalies. Though one might say that he
A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.
Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience...
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