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Sterling Bunnell was an American surgeon whose work helped establish hand surgery as a distinct surgical specialty. During and after the Second World War, he trained surgeons and organized treatment for complex hand injuries, emphasizing coordinated repair of bones, tendons, nerves, and soft tissue....
Paul Brand was a British surgeon known for reconstructive work with people affected by leprosy, particularly during his medical career in India. He demonstrated that much of the tissue damage associated with leprosy resulted from repeated injury to limbs that had lost protective sensation. Brand dev...
The Hand of St. John the Baptist resides within the Topkapi Palace collection in Istanbul. This ancient relic, believed to be the right hand of the prophet and baptizer of Jesus Christ, is one of the most revered Christian relics. It was acquired by the Ottoman Empire and remains a significant objec...
The Holy Right is a Catholic relic traditionally identified as the preserved right hand of Stephen I, Hungary's first king and a ruler canonized in 1083. It is kept in a decorated reliquary in St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest and has religious as well as Hungarian national significance. The relic...
Susumu Tamai is a Japanese orthopedic and hand surgeon associated with the early development of clinical microsurgery. In 1965, Tamai and Shigeo Komatsu performed a successful replantation of a completely amputated thumb using microsurgical vascular repair. His subsequent work in digit and limb repl...
Harold E. Kleinert was an American surgeon associated with Louisville, Kentucky, whose work helped establish modern hand and microsurgery. He advanced primary repair of injured flexor tendons and postoperative mobilization methods intended to preserve tendon movement while healing. Kleinert also con...
James R. Urbaniak is an American orthopedic surgeon associated with Duke University and known for work in hand surgery and microsurgery. His clinical and academic contributions include the replantation of amputated digits and the use of free vascularized tissue transfer, procedures that depend on jo...
The Holy Right is the mummified right hand traditionally identified as belonging to Saint Stephen I, the first king of Hungary and a foundational figure of the Hungarian state. It is kept in Saint Stephen's Basilica in Budapest and has been venerated as a national and Catholic relic since Stephen's...
Joseph H. Boyes was an American orthopedic and hand surgeon whose work helped establish hand surgery as a distinct surgical specialty. He is particularly associated with the development and systematic study of flexor tendon grafting, including techniques used to restore finger movement after tendon...
Mano del Desierto is a large concrete sculpture located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, approximately 75 kilometers south of the city of Antofagasta. Inaugurated in 1992, the 11-meter-tall monument was created by Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal. The artwork depicts an oversized human hand emergin...
Robert Chase was an American plastic and hand surgeon at Stanford University who helped advance hand surgery as a recognized subspecialty in the mid-to-late 20th century.
