Book(s) of the Month
April, 2024
The Hand and the Brain: From Lucy's Thumb to the Thought-Controlled Robotic Hand - Goran Lundborg
A wide-ranging book that explores - amongst other topics - the evolution of the hand, tool-use, language, touch, the somatosensory cortex, hand injury and repair, and the robotic hand. Goran Lundborg is an eminent Swedish hand surgeon who has written extensively on peripheral nerve injury and repair.
Read his article, "Hand Function After Nerve Repair", below:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-1716.2006.01653.x
April, 2024
Hands - John Napier (Revised by Russel H. Tuttle)
A classic treatise on the hand, written for the layperson, by physician and preeminent primatologist Professor John Napier. Topics covered include the evolution, structure, and function of the hand, as well as tool-use, handedness, and gestures.
Read more about Professor Napier, here:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1262025/pdf/janat00173-0226.pdf
