Making Hands

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.

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