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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[edit]
Born 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]
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References[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.