Stories
- 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
Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook on Circuits for Mental Prosthetics
Date: c.1969Reference: PENROSE/2/45/7/1Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
TS of "Prosthetics for the Severely Mentally Handicapped"
Date: Aug 1969Reference: PENROSE/2/45/7/3Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook on Prosthetics for the Severely Mentally Handicapped
Date: Aug 1969Reference: PENROSE/2/45/7/2Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Papers Relating to Prosthetics
Date: 1969Reference: PENROSE/2/45/7Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Letter to Harry Harris
Date: 24 Oct 1972Reference: PENROSE/2/45/7/5Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers