THE GUINEA PIG CLUB
Professor David Muckart, surgeon
Wednesday 21 January 1.00 pm COURSE FEES R115; Staff and students R58
This lecture describes the unique injuries sustained by aircrew during World War II and the surgical innovations designed to treat such patients. Most injuries involved severe burns to the hands and face. The proposed procedures were explained to the patients, as well as the fact that these procedures had never been tried before and were essentially experimental. Hence the patients created a club, The Guinea Pig Club.
Recommended reading
Fitzharris, L. 2022. The Facemaker. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Godwin, Y. 1997. ‘Time is the healer’: McIndoe’s Guinea Pigs Fifty Years on. British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 50, pp. 88–98.
Mayhew, EH. 2011. The Reconstruction of Warriors. Barnsley: Frontline Books.
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