Wonder of the Human Hand : Care and Repair of the Body's Most Marvelous Instrument, Paperback by Wilgis, E. F. Shaw (EDT), ISBN 1421415488, ISBN-13 9781421415482, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

The hand is perhaps the most important part of our body for interacting and manipulating the external environment. In this book, fourteen surgeons and hand specialists from the Curtis National Hand Center tell stories about the remarkable nature of the human hand. Each story is different--some cover how the hand interacts with the environment and some tell stories of specific people, like major league pitcher Jim Abbot, who have accomplished impressive feats with only one hand. The stories seamlessly interweave the ways in which medical science has been able to restore function to hands damaged by disease, accident, and combat, thus connecting the form and function of the hand for a complete picture. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()