Tag: Ziad Joseph Rahal
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Jules Amar (1879–1935). A method to help soldiers who were amputated or mutilated during the First World War reintegrate society
Philippe Campillo Ziad Joseph Rahal France Figure 1. The arthrodynamometer. (Amar, 1915, p. 833) Jules Amar (1879–1935) may not be well known in medical texts, but his work helped initiate two important scientific disciplines: the physiology of work and ergonomics. In The performance of the human machine: research on work (1909)1 Amar wrote of…