Anatomical anomalies / Isabella Alston & Kathryn Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alston, Isabella, author.

Dixon, Kathryn, author.

Series:

Minibooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abnormalities, Human.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina, : TAJ Books International, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The human body is an immensely complex and amazing system, but sometimes something goes haywire and causes one or more of its vital elements to misfire, resulting in bizarre and often devastating anatomical anomalies. Such physical abnormalities in times past often meant that the affected individuals would be stigmatized and shunned from the rest of society, primarily out of fear of the unknown. Thankfully, modern science and modern medicine working together have been able to solve many of these physical problems so that the currently afflicted can lead relatively normal lives. The general pub

Contents:

""Introduction""; ""Freak Show""; ""Elephant Man""; ""Hyptertrichosis""; ""Elephantiasis""; ""Dipygus""; ""Anna Swan Bates""; ""General Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt""; ""The Seven Sutherland Sisters""; ""Mademoiselle Gabrielle, The Half Woman""; """"Monstrosities""""; ""Specimen: Conjoined Twins""; ""Conjoined Twins""; ""Laloo""; ""Cutaneous Horn""; ""Goiter""; ""Lourdosis""; ""Multple Enchondroma""; ""Ossified Roy""; ""Man with a Tail""; ""Sirenomelia""; ""Phocomelia""; ""Facial Disfigurement""; ""Victims of Thalidomide""; ""Polydactyly""; ""Longest Fingernails (Female)""

""Longest Fingernails (Male)""""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 19, 2014).

ISBN:

9781844063789

184406378X

OCLC:

887105913