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Prosthetics in war and peace

Nature Materials volume 17, pages 946–948 (2018)Cite this article

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Emily Mayhew, a historian within the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, talks to Nature Materials about the advances that have been made in medicine and, in particular, prosthetics since World War I.

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Matsiko, A. Prosthetics in war and peace. Nature Mater 17, 946–948 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0212-4

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