Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries
David W. Page , "Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries"
B.hler Publications | 2006 | ISBN: 1933016418 | 254 pages | PDF | 4 MB
B.hler Publications | 2006 | ISBN: 1933016418 | 254 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Body Traumaexplains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.
Review
"A fascinating and most helpful reference for any writer of fiction or non-fiction" – Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Shelf Life
"A valuable resource for writers. I will certainly consult it the next time a physical mishap befalls one of my characters." – David Anthony Durham, author of Pride of Carthage
"An authoritative guide that delivers diagnosis and plot ideas with a wry bookside manner." – James Patrick Kelly, Hugo award-winning author of BURN.
"With this helpful guide Ahab's missing leg might have been labeled a traumatic amputation of the fibula and tibia." – Michael White, author of The Blind Side of The Heart, A Brother's Blood, A Dream of Wolves, The Garden of Martyrs