Katherine Ott is a curator of Science, Medicine, and Society at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, which houses the largest collection of medical artifacts in the U.S.David Serlin is Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.Stephen Mihmis a doctoral candidate in history at New York University.

"These essays are valuable first forays into the history of prosthetics." (Technology and Culture)

• I: Need 1 Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics after World War Two 2 Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially Rebuilding State and Society in World War One Germany 3 From Cotton to Silicone: Breast Prosthesis before 1950 4 "How a One-Legged Rebel Lives": Confederate Veterans and Artificial Limbs in Virginia II: Design 5 Hard Wear and Soft Tissue: Craft and Commerce in Artificial Eyes 6 Modern Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic Prosthetics 7 Casing the Joint: The Material Development of Artificial Hips 8 "There's No Language for This": Communication and Alignment in Contemporary Prosthetics III: Use and Representation 9 The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study, Photography, and the Industrialized Body in World War I America 10 "A Limb Which Shall Be Presentable in Polite Society": Prosthetic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century 11 The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin 12 Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur Foot Prothesis

Katherine Ott is a curator of Science, Medicine, and Society at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, which houses the largest collection of medical artifacts in the U.S.David Serlin is Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.Stephen Mihmis a doctoral candidate in history at New York University.

"These essays are valuable first forays into the history of prosthetics." (Technology and Culture)

• I: Need 1 Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics after World War Two 2 Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially Rebuilding State and Society in World War One Germany 3 From Cotton to Silicone: Breast Prosthesis before 1950 4 "How a One-Legged Rebel Lives": Confederate Veterans and Artificial Limbs in Virginia II: Design 5 Hard Wear and Soft Tissue: Craft and Commerce in Artificial Eyes 6 Modern Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic Prosthetics 7 Casing the Joint: The Material Development of Artificial Hips 8 "There's No Language for This": Communication and Alignment in Contemporary Prosthetics III: Use and Representation 9 The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study, Photography, and the Industrialized Body in World War I America 10 "A Limb Which Shall Be Presentable in Polite Society": Prosthetic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century 11 The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin 12 Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur Foot Prothesis