Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
Artificial legs for use after amputations & congenital deficiencies / by F.G. Ernst.
Ernst, F. G. (Friedrich Gustav)Date: 1923- Books
Artificial legs. Pt. 1, Should partial foot amputations be abandoned? / by Charles W. Cathcart.
Cathcart, Charles W. (Charles Walker)Date: 1888- Ephemera
John Sewers : well known in several parts of Europe, who lately lived in Cow-Lane, London, now liveth in Little St. Helens by Leather-Sellers-Hall, near Bishopgate-Street, though to the prejudice of many, as well as himself, some have maliciously reported, he was dead : He still maketh all sorts of artificial legs, for all conditions.
Sewers, John.Date: 1710
- Books
- Online
Specification of Moses Masters : artificial legs.
Masters, Moses.Date: 1862
- Books
- Online
Improvements in artificial legs.
The American Artificial Leg Company.Date: 1902