Research Guides: Health Sciences Library Virtual Displays: March: Amputee & Limb Loss Awareness

Amputee & Limb Loss Awareness

Welcome to this Health Sciences Library virtual book display.

All of the titles included in this display are available to be checked out or viewed virtually through our collection. Feel free to contact us at askHSL@vcu.edu with any questions and be sure to look at our research guides for more in-depth guides on many other topics.

This month, the Health Sciences Library is bringing awareness to those impacted by limb loss. This guide includes information on prosthetics and limb loss/amputees. The display ties in with the physical NLM Exhibit, Life and Limb, focusing on those injured at war.

E-books

Life and limb : perspectives on the American Civil War by Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781384266
Publication Date: 2015
The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affected by the American Civil War.
Lower Limb Amputation by Adrian Cristian
ISBN: 9781934559239
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Limb loss can occur due to trauma, infection, diabetes, vascular disease, cancer and other diseases. Lower limb amputation is relatively common and has a profound impact on a person's life, regardless of the cause. Feelings of loss and grief, difficulties in learning to walk with an artificial limb, and readjustment to an interrupted life all pose considerable challenges. Nevertheless, there are countless stories of people who have successfully overcome these problems.
Living with a Below-Knee Amputation by Richard Riley
ISBN: 1556426925
Publication Date: 2005-03-28
Living with a Below-Knee Amputation: A Unique Insight from a Prosthetist/Amputee provides an insightful look at the entire spectrum of the below knee experience from amputation to rehabilitation. As a prosthetist for 22 years, author Richard Riley uses real life examples to answer many of the questions facing amputees. The information is structured in a manner that permits quick, easy access to an array of topics.
Mending Broken Soldiers by Guy R. Hasegawa; James M. Schmidt (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780809331307
Publication Date: 2012-09-13
The four years of the Civil War saw bloodshed on a scale unprecedented in the history of the United States. Thousands of soldiers and sailors from both sides who survived the horrors of the war faced hardship for the rest of their lives as amputees. Now Guy R. Hasegawa presents the first volume to explore the wartime provisions made for amputees in need of artificial limbs--programs that, while they revealed stark differences between the resources and capabilities of the North and the South, were the forebears of modern government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded service members.
Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture by Aaron Shaheen
ISBN: 9780198857785
Publication Date: 2020-09-07
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries.

Physical Books

Living with a Below-Knee Amputation by Richard Riley
Call Number: RD756.4 .R54 2005
ISBN: 1556426925
Publication Date: 2005-03-28
Living with a Below-Knee Amputation: A Unique Insight from a Prosthetist/Amputee provides an insightful look at the entire spectrum of the below knee experience from amputation to rehabilitation. As a prosthetist for 22 years, author Richard Riley uses real life examples to answer many of the questions facing amputees. The information is structured in a manner that permits quick, easy access to an array of topics.
Therapy for Amputees by Barbara Engstrom (Editor); Catherine Van de Ven (Editor)
Call Number: RD553 .T494 1999
ISBN: 9780443059759
Publication Date: 1999-05-27
Therapy for Amputeesis a book for ALL those who work with amputees. Written by a multidisciplinary team for a multidisciplinary readership, the book addresses all aspects of care and rehabilitation for this group of clients. The approach of the book is practical and easy to follow making it appropriate for use by the amputees themselves and those caring for them at home. It addresses the day to day problems of rehabilitation therapists and their clients in a practical way and considers the provision of care and rehabilitation for amputees as it is managed today. Originally published under the title Physiotherapy for Amputees the Roehampton Approach this new edition takes a broad team approach to this area of rehabilitation which reflects current practice. It acknowledges that the majority of clients now receive rehabilitation therapy in the general hospital setting or at home in the community.
Smart Prosthetics by National Academies (U.S.), Keck Futures Initiative Staff (Contribution by); National Academies Staff; Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine, California, November 9-11, 2006, Staff
Call Number: RD130 .S63 2007
ISBN: 9780309104661
Publication Date: 2007-04-08
The 2006 conference, oeSmart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind, attracted scientists, engineers and medical researchers to participate in a series of task groups to develop research plans to address various challenges within the prosthetics field.
Amputations and Prosthetics by Bella J. May
Call Number: RD553 .M425 1996
ISBN: 0803600437
Publication Date: 1996-07-01
A case-based text, now with terminology consistent with the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, uses a holistic approach to the management of individuals with amputations. Concise yet comprehensive, it discusses traumatic amputations, juvenile amputees, and the management of individuals with peripheral vascular diseases. The 2nd Edition reviews the latest technological advances in prosthetic fabrication and provides information on relevant websites.
A History of Limb Amputation by John Kirkup
Call Number: RD553 .K57 2007
ISBN: 9781846284434
Publication Date: 2006-12-20
This book opens with a unique historical review of natural amputations due to congenital absence, disease, frostbite, animal trauma, and to punishment and ritual. The advent of surgical amputation and its difficulties form a major part of the book, summarising the evolution of the control of haemorrhage and infection, pain relief, techniques, instrumentation, complications, prostheses, results and case histories. Alternative procedures, increasingly important in the last two centuries, are also debated.
Phantom Pain by Richard A. Sherman
Call Number: RD553 .S54 1997
ISBN: 0306453398
Publication Date: 1996-11-30
Phantom pain is an intriguing mystery that has captured the imagination of health care providers and the public alike. How is it possible to feel pain in a limb or some other body part that has been surgically removed? Phantom pain develops among people who have lost a limb or a breast or have had internal organs removed. It also occurs in people with totally transected spinal cords.

Media

Out on A Limb
This program explores the amazing evolution of prosthetics and advancements in robotics and neuroscience that are helping adults and children who have lost a limb. A science story and a human story, this documentary shows the transformative impact of technology for those who use prosthetics.
Upper Limb Amputation
This instructional video, produced by the Mayo Clinic, features three amputees discussing life after having upper limbs amputated.

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