Stories
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Article
Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.
- Article
Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century
As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.
Catalogue
- Books
Artificial limbs / by Leon Gillis.
Gillis, Leon.Date: [1957], ©1957- Audio
Artificial limbs in Britain.
Date: No date
- Books
- Online
Artificial limbs and their relation to amputations.
Great Britain. Ministry of Pensions.Date: [1939], ©1939- Books
Artificial limbs for use after amputations and congenital deficiencies / by F. Gustav. Ernst.
Ernst, F. G. (Friedrich Gustav)Date: [1906?]- Books
Artificial limbs / by A. Broca and Ducroquet ; translated and edited by R.C. Elmslie.
Broca, Auguste, 1859-1924.Date: 1918