The body factory : from the first prosthetics to the augmented human / story and art, Héloïse Chochois; [translated by Kendra Boileau]
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, Graphic Mundi, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 155 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780271087061
- 0271087064
- Fabrique des corps. English
- Prosthesis -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Artificial limbs -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Amputees -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Amputation -- Methods -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Amputation -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Phantom limb -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Prosthesis -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc
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Northport Library | Graphic Novel | 617.58 C545 | Available | 33111009875309 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him. The subject of the painting introduces himself as Ambroise Paré, the French barber-surgeon who revolutionized the art of amputation. From this wonderfully absurd premise, the two begin an imaginary conversation that takes them through a sweeping history of surgical amputation, from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Unencumbered by pathos or didacticism, this graphic novel explores the world of amputation, revealing fascinating details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies.
Playfully illustrated and seriously funny, The Body Factory is sure to delight anyone interested in the history and future of medicine and how we repair--and even enhance--the body.
Translation of: La fabrique des corps: Des premières prothèses à l'humain augmenté. Première édition. Paris : Delcourt, [2017].
"A graphic novel exploring amputation, revealing details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies"-- Provided by publisher.
Translated from the French.