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

"An effective prosthesis delivers renewed functionality and is cosmetically pleasing, but it also serves to complete t…"

"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…"

"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…"