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Body Trauma: A Writer s Guide to Wounds and Injuries (Get It Write) Paperback – October 15, 2006
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Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.
- Print length254 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBehler Publications
- Publication dateOctober 15, 2006
- Dimensions6.24 x 0.75 x 9.1 inches
- ISBN-101933016418
- ISBN-13978-1933016412
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"A valuable resource for writers. I will certainly consult it the next time a physical mishap befalls one of my characters." -- David Anthony Durham, author of Pride of Carthage
"An authoritative guide that delivers diagnosis and plot ideas with a wry bookside manner." -- James Patrick Kelly, Hugo award-winning author of BURN.
"With this helpful guide Ahab's missing leg might have been labeled a traumatic amputation of the fibula and tibia." -- Michael White, author of The Blind Side of The Heart, A Brother's Blood, A Dream of Wolves, The Garden of Martyrs
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- Publisher : Behler Publications; Second edition (October 15, 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 254 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1933016418
- ISBN-13 : 978-1933016412
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.24 x 0.75 x 9.1 inches
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The cover feels like it might have a protective coating on it, but I haven't spilled coffee on it yet, so I can't guarntee that.
Highly reccommended by writer friends, but it turns out this is a primer on trauma with broad categories and general discussions of the effect of various trauma on the body. It's a great place to start, but not nearly enough detail for my needs. It includes some injuries I hadn't thought of, so it's not a total waste of money, but I'm glad I didn't have to spend more for a hardback.
Although there were a few glimmers of information here, I couldn't help feeling massively let down. There was nothing of use in this book that I could not have gleamed from a bit of research. I was expecting something much more in depth.
I might have been willing to forgive this book for the fact that it assumes that the author's characters have access to an E.R. or other such medical facility, so long as it gave me some basic information about how the injuries look and feel. But it doesn't really do that. It sticks a lot to the most common sorts of injury, but doesn't really take into account that in the realms of fiction, we often put our characters into very extreme situations. This book did not have information that I felt was much useful for "extreme" circumstances.
I was almost tempted to give this book away, but perhaps there will be a few gems of information that I can mine from amongst the rubbish heap. I'd definitely recommend others avoid it. For the price, there's not enough here to be worth it.
If I were to revise this book, I would:
* remove all anecdotes
* move all ER/OR info and first aid advice to their own chapters
* organize the information into charts and bullet points for quick access when doing research; while it should be useful as a 'read through to familiarize yourself' tool, its primary use is as a reference
* add more diagrams and descriptions; nobody should be queasy when checking this book
* include a chapter on myths (how quickly a gunshot can kill, how difficult it is to behead someone, and other things a novelist will be tempted to get wrong)
* most of all, add descriptions of sensation, accompanying mental/emotional reactions, and other information a novelist could use
Basically, I would make it The Emotion Thesaurus for body trauma.











