Making Hands: A History of Prosthetic Arms

by Peter Kyberd

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128205440
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/25/2021
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

From 1990, Peter Kyberd worked at the Oxford Orthopaedic Engineering Centre, at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre a hospital in Oxford, UK. From 2003 to 2015 he was Canada Research Chair at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada, a world leading centre in Upper Limb Prosthetics. He returned to the UK to be head of Engineering Science, at Greenwich University and is now at Portsmouth University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Artificial arms
3. The hand
4. History of upper limb prostheses
5. Body powered prostheses
6. Externally powered prostheses
7. A tale of two elbows
8. The Edinburgh arm and the i-Limb hand
9. Otto Bock
10. Prosthetics in the United Kingdom
11. Research in Sweden
12. Limbs from the Windy City
13. Prosthetics research in Canada
14. Prosthetics in the twenty first century

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From the Publisher

A one-stop, annotated synthesis of the evolution of prosthetic upper extremity technology