Incorporating the prosthetic: Traumatic, limb-loss, rehabilitation and refigured military bodies

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 2130-2134

  Messinger, Seth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Limb loss; Social context; Traumatic injury; War

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARM; BLAST INJURY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELBOW; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IRAQ; LIMB AMPUTATION; NOTE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SOLDIER;

EID: 70449434133     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638280902943223a     Document Type: Note

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