"“Right on the border of Burma and Thailand, there are landmines like you wouldn’t believe,” he says. These landmines …"

"The earliest example of a prosthesis ever discovered is not a leg, arm, or even a fake eye, it’s a toe. A big toe, be…"

"Stories of lives devastated by conflict or disease are all too common across low-income countries. Lack of an arm or …"

"Yet for all the agonies and difficulties associated with arm loss, the bigger problem in low-income countries is when…"

"“If you wear a prosthesis you are disabled for about ten minutes in the morning while you have a shower, then you put…"

"Traditionally, a prosthetist would wrap a stump with plaster of Paris bandages to make a reverse mold and let it dry,…"

"For Wright, the prosthetic had to have a purpose. She wasn’t interested in something that made her look “normal” if i…"

"For a long time the history of prosthetics has been inextricably linked with the history of war, and thus of men. Aft…"

"In a 2013 interview with The New York Times, De Oliveira Barata described her work on prosthetics as outside of engin…"

"“There’s a dream that in the future, we’ll be sitting in our home and hit a button to print our prosthetics from scra…"