Anatomy, Biomechanics and Ergonomics
"Human Anatomy is a part, not merely of medical science,
but also, beyond that, of biological knowledge, and beyond that also a part of the totality
of mankind's understanding of his universe. But it has been customarily isolated, and usually still
is in many schools and texts... it is stultifying to confine enquiry or description to
the artificially bounded 'subjects' of 'education'. Anatomy has been
a particular sufferer in this compartmentalisation... There are, in fact, no real boundaries
between 'anatomy' and all other fields of human enquiry..."
"...the human individual has not only applied himself to the creation of innumerable skills
and crafts for mere survival, but has, in the unceasing development of mind, evolved the arts -
painting, literature, poetry, music, sculpture and drama - to enrich our culture."
"Human Anatomy is, therefore, a crucial feature of mankind's unending study of man, which
embraces the arts, sciences, mathematics, politics, religions, ergonomics and environmental
manipulation - all percepts of human cerebration."
Gray's Anatomy, 1989
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Suggested Reading
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Raoul Tubiana: "Examination of the Hand and Upper Limb": W.B.Saunders: ISBN 0-7216-1056-0
- Based on Dr Tubiana's four volume set, "The Hand"
Dr Tubiana is Director of the Hand Institute in Paris, and is former President of the International Societies of Surgery of the Hand
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John Napier (revised by Russell H. Tuttle): "Hands": Princeton University Press: ISBN 0-691-02547-9
- Wide ranging and very readable, with fascinating insights, esp. in comparative anatomy
John Napier was a physician specializing in hands - also a writer on primates and evolution
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Gray's Anatomy: Churchill Livingstone: ISBN 0-443-04560-7
- Comfortingly authoritative, extensive and beautifully illustrated - if expensive
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Ian Winspur & Christopher B Wynn Parry: "The Musician's Hand - A Clinical Guide": Martin Dunitz: ISBN 1-85317-492-0
- This is an extremely useful book by two of the leading figures in musicians' health
It is aimed equally at musicians, surgeons and physiotherapists
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Otto Ortmann: "The Physiological Mechanics of Piano Technique" (1930): Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd (London);
E.P.Dutton & Co (New York) - Now out of print
- Solid gold. If you can find a copy, don't exchange it for anything
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