Author : MICHAEL L. COX
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913208524
BORN TOGETHER
MICHAEL L. COX
Born Together The Story Of Conjoined Twins
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Born Together: The Story of Conjoined Twins
Michael L Cox
Author : Michael L Cox
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781913551605
Born Together: The Story of Conjoined Twins by Michael L Cox Pdf
Born Together explores the fascinating and rare phenomenon of conjoined twins in both humans and animals.
Conjoined Twins
Christine Quigley
Author : Christine Quigley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476603230
Conjoined Twins by Christine Quigley Pdf
When two human ova fail to fully separate during pregnancy, the result is conjoined twins. The twins may be connected by ligament, bone, or just flesh, and they often share organs, but what captures most people’s interest is whether the twins share sensations, thoughts and even souls. This encyclopedia presents entries on conjoined twins throughout history, the biological causes and effects of twins being born conjoined, and ethical issues such as self-support and separation surgery. It also includes entries on the modern standardized terminology used when discussing conjoined twins, the categories into which conjoined twins have been sorted, doctors past and present who have performed separation surgeries, and hospitals, such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, that are known for the separation of conjoined twins. This book even covers fraudulent conjoined twins and fictional ones in books written by such authors as Mark Twain, Vladimir Nabakov, and Katherine Dunn. Other entries cover relevant films, websites, and institutions.
Joined at Birth
Elaine Landau
Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : 053120331X
Joined at Birth by Elaine Landau Pdf
Explores the issue of conjoined twins, including a discussion of the difficult decision regarding physical separation that parents must face.
The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton
Dean Jensen
Author : Dean Jensen
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307814777
The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton by Dean Jensen Pdf
The lives and loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton follows the poignant life story of twin sisters who were literally joined at the hip, set against the tumultuous backdrop of America during the first half of the 20th century. Daisy and Violet and an unforgettable cast of show-business characters come alive on the pages of this carefully researched and sensitively written biography. Reviews "Jensen's book is a testament to the fickleness of the entertainment world." -Tampa Bay Tribune "It is an affecting story, gently and honestly told without frills, without sensation. In Jensen's hands, the twins are always human, individuals, never freaks joined at the hips as the world saw them after their birth in 1908. . . Here, their story is pure." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Girls
Lori Lansens
Author : Lori Lansens
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371546
The Girls by Lori Lansens Pdf
In Lori Lansens’ astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped usher them into the world. Aunt Lovey and her husband, Uncle Stash, are middle-aged and with no children of their own. They relocate from the town to the drafty old farmhouse in the country that has been in Lovey’s family for generations. Joined to Ruby at the head, Rose’s face is pulled to one side, but she has full use of her limbs. Ruby has a beautiful face, but her body is tiny and she is unable to walk. She rests her legs on her sister’s hip, rather like a small child or a doll. In spite of their situation, the girls lead surprisingly separate lives. Rose is bookish and a baseball fan. Ruby is fond of trash TV and has a passion for local history. Rose has always wanted to be a writer, and as the novel opens, she begins to pen her autobiography. Here is how she begins: I have never looked into my sister’s eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially. Ruby, with her marvellous characteristic logic, points out that Rose’s autobiography will have to be Ruby’s as well — and how can she trust Rose to represent her story accurately? Soon, Ruby decides to chime in with chapters of her own. The novel begins with Rose, but eventually moves to Ruby’s point of view and then switches back and forth. Because the girls face in slightly different directions, neither can see what the other is writing, and they don’t tell each other either. The reader is treated to sometimes overlapping stories told in two wonderfully distinct styles. Rose is given to introspection and secrecy. Ruby’s style is "tell-all" — frank and decidedly sweet. We learn of their early years as the town "freaks" and of Lovey’s and Stash’s determination to give them as normal an upbringing as possible. But when we meet them, both Lovey and Stash are dead, the girls have moved back into town, and they’ve received some ominous news. They are on the verge of becoming the oldest surviving craniopagus (joined at the head) twins in history, but the question of whether they’ll live to celebrate their thirtieth birthday is suddenly impossible to answer. In Rose and Ruby, Lori Lansens has created two precious characters, each distinct and loveable in their very different ways, and has given them a world in Leaford that rings absolutely true. The girls are unforgettable. The Girls is nothing short of a tour de force.
Separated @ Birth
Anais Bordier,Samantha Futerman
Author : Anais Bordier,Samantha Futerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698148352
Separated @ Birth by Anais Bordier,Samantha Futerman Pdf
Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, “I think we might be twins…don’t freak out…” It all began when design student Anaïs Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anaïs found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19, 1987—the exact same location and day that Anaïs was born. This propelled her to make contact—via Facebook. One message later, both girls wondered: Could they be twins? Thus begins their remarkable journey to build a relationship as sisters, continents apart. Over Facebook, Twitter, and Skype, they learned that they shared much more than a strikingly similar appearance. Eventually, they traveled to Korea together to discover more about the land of their separation. One of Facebook's Top Ten Stories of 2013, Separated @ Birth is a story that spans the world and peels back some of the complex and emotional layers of foreign adoption.
One of Us
Alice Domurat Dreger
Author : Alice Domurat Dreger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674018257
One of Us by Alice Domurat Dreger Pdf
One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. This deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.”
Accidental Brothers
Dr. Nancy L. Segal,Yesika S. Montoya
Author : Dr. Nancy L. Segal,Yesika S. Montoya
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781250101914
Accidental Brothers by Dr. Nancy L. Segal,Yesika S. Montoya Pdf
"A unique window into human behavior and development." —Steven Pinker The riveting story of two sets of identical twins separated at birth and improbably reunited as adults, a dream case for exploring nature and nurture. Accidental Brothers tells the unique story of two sets of identical Colombian twin brothers who discovered at age 25 that they were mistakenly raised as fraternal twins—when they were not even biological brothers. Due to an oversight that presumably occurred in the hospital nursery, one twin in each pair was switched with a twin in the other pair. The result was two sets of unrelated “fraternal” twins—Jorge and Carlos, who were raised in the lively city of Bogotá; and William and Wilber, who were raised in the remote rural village of La Paz, 150 miles away. Their parents and siblings were aware of the enormous physical and behavioral differences between the members of each set, but never doubted that the two belonged in their biological families. Everyone’s life unraveled when one of the twins—William—was mistaken by a young woman for his real identical twin, Jorge. Her “discovery” led to the truth—that the alleged twins were not twins at all, but rather unrelated individuals who ended up with the wrong families. Blending great science and human interest, Accidental Brothers by Nancy L. Segal and Yesika S. Montoya will inform and entertain anyone interested in how twin studies illuminate the origins of human behavior, as well as mother-infant identification and the chance events that can have profound consequences on our lives.
Violet and Daisy
Sarah Miller
Author : Sarah Miller
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593119730
Violet and Daisy by Sarah Miller Pdf
From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. On February 5, 1908, Kate Skinner, a 21-year-old unmarried barmaid in Brighton, England, gave birth to twin girls. They each had ten fingers and ten toes, but were joined back to back at the base of the spine. Freaks, monsters--that's what they were called. Mary Hilton, Kate's employer and midwife, adopted Violet and Daisy and promptly began displaying the babies as "Brighton's United Twins." Exhibitions at street fairs, carnivals, and wax museums across England and Scotland followed. At 8 years old, the girls came to the United States, eventually becoming the stars of sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. In a story loaded with questions about identity and exploitation, Sarah Miller delivers a completely compelling, empathetic portrait of two sisters whose bonds were so sacred that nothing — not even death— would compel Violet and Daisy to break them.
One
Sarah Crossan
Author : Sarah Crossan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408829462
One by Sarah Crossan Pdf
_______________ 'Broke my heart and mended it' - Cecilia Ahern 'It will shake up preconceptions and move readers to tears' - Sunday Times Book of the Week 'Truly remarkable' - Irish Times _______________ WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER OF THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER OF THE CLIPPA POETRY AWARD _______________ Here we are. And we are living. Isn't that amazing? How we manage to be here at all. Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. They're conjoined twins - united in blood and bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. And what about love? But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi and Grace. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for... This moving and beautifully crafted novel about identity, sisterhood and love ultimately asks one question: what does it mean to want and have a soulmate? _______________ Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation... Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, Toffee, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.
One of Us
Alice Domurat Dreger
Author : Alice Domurat Dreger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674263086
One of Us by Alice Domurat Dreger Pdf
Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context—the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.” In doing so, the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined.
Conjoined Twins in Black and White
Linda Frost
Author : Linda Frost
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299230739
Conjoined Twins in Black and White by Linda Frost Pdf
Conjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Violet Hilton, English twins born in 1908, speak for themselves through memoirs that help us understand what it is like to live physically joined to someone else. Conjoined Twins in Black and White provides contemporary readers with the twins’ autobiographies, the first two “show histories” to be republished since their original appearance, a previously unpublished novella, and a nineteenth-century medical examination, each of which attempts to define these women and reveal the issues of race, gender, and the body prompted by the twins themselves. The McKoys, born slaves, were kidnapped and taken to Britain, where they worked as entertainers until they were reunited with their mother in an emotional chance encounter. The Hiltons, cast away by their horrified mother at birth, worked the carnival circuit as vaudeville performers until the WWII economy forced them to the burlesque stage. The hardships, along with the triumphs, experienced by these very different sister sets lend insight into our fascination with conjoined twins.
Someone Else's Twin
Nancy L. Segal
Author : Nancy L. Segal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Infants switched at birth
ISBN : 1616144378
Someone Else's Twin by Nancy L. Segal Pdf
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Double Take
Daniel Jussim
Author : Daniel Jussim
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Conjoined twins
ISBN : 0670884529
Double Take by Daniel Jussim Pdf
Twins hold a special fascination for both children and grown-ups. We love to look at them, hear stories about them, and best of all, meet them. In the United States today, there are more twins than ever before. Double Take: The Story of Twins is an in-depth introduction to the lives of twins, multiples, and conjoined twins. Readers will learn why twinning takes place and meet five sets of twins. They will read amazing stories about twins who were separated at birth only to meet years later, stories about twins who marry twins, and profiles of families with bigger broods, including the famous McCaughey Septuplets and the Dionne Quintuplets. Readers also have the special opportunity to meet a set of conjoined twins, Brittany and Abigail Hensel, who, despite a rare and challenging condition, have developed into down-to-earth and very happy young ladies. Illustrated with over forty-five fabulous twin photographs, Double Take is a thorough and captivating look at what makes us so curious about twins.
