The Wonder of the Human Hand: Care and Repair of the Body's Most Marvelous Instrument

Specialists from a world-class hand center remind us how very important hands are and describe how medicine helps people whose hands are impaired.
Using our hands, we interact with the environment in ways that are more sophisticated, more varied, and more productive than any other part of our body. The delicate instrument that is the hand makes it possible for us to knead dough and perform a heart transplant; make contact with strangers, friends, and lovers; throw a baseball; and create a scale model of a skyscraper and build that skyscraper. From the most mundane activity to our most sublime achievement, the hand has helped us shape the world and given us a deeper understanding of our place in it.