Hip Replacement (Daily Telegraph) - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

The development of total hip replacement counts as one of the great success stories of modern medicine. Yet the operation still involves difficult practical choices for the patient, and, until now, there was little real guidance available.

This instructive new book equips the reader with all they need to know about hip replacement and its alternatives. A key question is when to opt for surgery - as the author reveals much can be done to relieve the pain of arthritis through pain-killers, physiotherapy, alternative medicine and useful aids.

Once the decision to have the operation has been made, however, patient-expert Thomas Crump offers advice on how to make crucial choices, for example between an uncemented and a cemented prosthesis, or private versus public care, and explores the option of treatment abroad.

Biografía del autor

Thomas Crump, successful author of A Brief History of Science, recently underwent a hip operation and brings to this book an understanding of the needs and concerns of the patient.

His passionate interest in science and its history has given rise to a number of books, most recently Solar Eclipse and The Anthropology of Numbers. A mathematician and anthropologist, until his retirement in 1994, he taught anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.