From the contents: - The Irreversibility of Injury - Nonregenerative Tissues - Anatomically Well-Defined Defects - The Defect Closure Rule - Regeneration of Skin - Regeneration of a Peripheral Nerve - Irreducible Processes for Synthesis of Skin and Peripheral Nerves - The Antagonistic Relation Between Contraction and Regeneration - Kinetics and Mechanism I. Spontaneous Healing - Kinetics and Mechanism - Induced Regeneration - Appendix A: Method of estimation of critical axon elongation of an arbitrary tubulated device bridging two nerve stumps - Index