The Wonder of the Human Hand: Care and Repair of the Body's Most Marvelous Instrument

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By E.F. Shaw Wilgis ’58

Published Jan. 21, 2016

Surgeons and hand specialists from the Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore, of which E.F. Shaw Wilgis ’58 is a founding director and former chief, describe how hands are used in work, sports, and music, and trace the human fascination with hands in religion and art. There are stories of people who accomplished great things with one hand, or with impaired or injured hands, and of surgeries that created fingers where none existed.

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