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

The Amigos eShelf℠ Service has been available to libraries since the beginning of November. Since then, we have been getting the word out by attending conferences and posting to social media. Just this fall, we exhibited and presented at the Missouri/Kansas, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Arizona Library Association conferences, and also attended the Charleston and LITA conferences.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.

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