- 388 pages
- English
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About this book
Making Hands: The Design and Use of Upper Extremity Prosthetics provides a historical account of the development of upper extremity prostheses. It describes different aspects surrounding the development of key elements of mechanisms and control, for prosthetic hands and arms, and includes biographical sketches of some key contributors. The field is broad and uses knowledge from a wide range of disciplines. Sections cover the background to give researchers and professionals what they need to learn about adjacent fields. The author's expertise on the control of prostheses makes this a very comprehensive resource on the topic.
- Covers research and technological innovation in the development of upper limb prostheses
- Introduces upper limb prosthetics from the different perspectives of biology, engineering, clinical practice and industry
- Discusses innovations of the recent decades, rapid manufacture, the 'citizen engineer', and how these things may shape prosthetics in the future
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Biography
- Preface
- Acronyms
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter 1 : Introduction
- Chapter 2 : Artificial arms
- Chapter 3 : The hand
- Chapter 4 : History of upper limb prostheses
- Chapter 5 : Body powered prostheses
- Chapter 6 : Externally powered prostheses
- Chapter 7 : A tale of two elbows: The development of the Boston and Utah Arms
- Chapter 8 : The Edinburgh arm and the i-Limb hand
- Chapter 9 : Otto Bock
- Chapter 10 : Prosthetics in the United Kingdom
- Chapter 11 : Research in Sweden: The pioneers of paediatric prosthetics and osseointegration
- Chapter 12 : Limbs from the Windy City: Prosthetics research in Chicago
- Chapter 13 : Prosthetics research in Canada
- Chapter 14 : Prosthetics in the twenty first century
- Interviewees
- Bibliography
- Index
- 0–9