IGI Global offers free December access to article on growing market for artificial organs

Our bodies and "selves" have come to be physically and mentally meshed with external artifacts and objects, and this fact sets the stage for a variety of philosophical and moral questions related to the role of culture in our technological world. Artificial organs are not as recent a development as you may think. As early as 3000 BC, Egyptian mummies testify that missing limbs and fingers were replaced with wooden prostheses.

During December, IGI Global is offering open access to the article "Artificial Organs" by Gerardo Catapano, University of Calabria, Italy, and Gijsbertus Jacob Verkerke, University of Groningen, Netherlands. They discuss the history and design of artificial organs, and how the industry has evolved from empirical attempts at providing generic replacement of a single mechanical function to a more systematic multi-purpose approach that increasingly accounts for biological issues.

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