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Katie Holton (24 August 1988 – 4 April 1992) and Eilish Holton (born 24 August 1988) were a pair of dicephalic parapagus twins. In other words, the two were conjoined twins, each of whom had a separate head, but whose bodies were joined.
Biography
editBorn joined at the hip and the leg, both girls initially seemed healthy, but complications with Katie's heart led to the need for separation.[1] They gained international prominence after an operation to separate them, performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital[2] on 1 April 1992,[3] was successful, but further complications resulted in Katie's death four days later.[4] Both during and after the operation, documentaries were filmed about the two, spurring debate and examination over the practice,[5] as well as feminist thought regarding metaphysics and materialism.[6]
Eilish, however, recovered, with difficulty perhaps attributable to the loss of Katie,[7] and later met with Abby and Brittany Hensel, another pair of conjoined twins.[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Bondeson, Jan (2000). The two-headed boy, and other medical marvels. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801437679. OCLC 43296582.
- ^ Laville, Sandra (2000-08-25). "Chance of separation success increased by modern surgery". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
- ^ Dreger, Alice (2004). One of us: conjoined twins and the future of normal. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 54. ISBN 0674012941. OCLC 53231253.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Wallis, Claudia (2001-06-24). "The Most Intimate Bond". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
- ^ Myser, Catherine; Clark, David L. (1998). ""Fixing" Katie and Eilish: medical documentaries and the subjection of conjoined twins". Literature and Medicine. 17 (1): 45–67. ISSN 0278-9671. PMID 9604844.
- ^ Shildrick, Margrit; Orr, Deborah; López-McAlister, Linda; Kahl, Eileen; Earle, Kathleen. "Monstrous Reflections on the Mirror of the Self-Same". Belief, bodies, and being: feminist reflections on embodiment. Lanham, Md. ISBN 0742514145. OCLC 61757944.
- ^ Murray, Craig D. (August 2001). "The experience of body boundaries by Siamese twins". New Ideas in Psychology. 19 (2): 117–130. doi:10.1016/s0732-118x(00)00018-0. ISSN 0732-118X.
- ^ Myerson, Julie (1995-09-03). "Such sweetened sorrow". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-06-04.