{"id":162869,"date":"2015-03-19T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/19\/female-amputees-grapple-with-prosthetics-for-men\/"},"modified":"2015-03-19T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:10:49","slug":"female-amputees-grapple-with-prosthetics-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/19\/female-amputees-grapple-with-prosthetics-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Female amputees grapple with prosthetics for men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonus.kottke.org\/post\/113955366478\/female-amputees-grapple-with-prosthetics-for-men\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">jkottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/also.kottke.org\/misc\/images\/woman-amputee.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" alt=\"woman-amputee.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Motherboard has an interesting story about how women who lose limbs are finding prosthetic devices are made for men: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/man-hands\" target=\"_blank\">Man Hands<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>When Jen Lacey gets her toes done, she does both feet, even though one of them is made of rubber. \u201cI always paint my toenails,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause it\u2019s cute, and I want to be as regular as possible.\u201d But for a long time, even with the painted toes, her prosthetic foot looked ridiculous. The rubber foot shell she had was wide, big and ugly. \u201cI called it a sasquatch foot,\u201d she jokes. \u201cIt\u2019s an ugly man foot.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Part of the problem is that most prosthetic devices are designed by men and most prosthetists are men. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>There are a few reasons for all this male-centric design. The history of prosthetics is, in large part, a history of war. One of the earliest written records of a prosthetic device comes from the Rigveda, an ancient sacred text from India. Ironically, that amputee is a woman\u2014the warrior queen Vishpala loses her leg in battle and is fitted with a replacement so she can return and fight again. But after that, the history of prosthetics is nearly entirely a history of men\u2014Roman generals, knights, soldiers, dukes.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Every year, 30 percent of those undergoing an amputation are women. In other words, it\u2019s the 70 percent that\u2019s male that drives the market. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jkottke: Motherboard has an interesting story about how women who lose limbs are finding prosthetic devices are made for men: \u201cMan Hands.\u201d When Jen Lacey gets her toes done, she does both feet, even though one of them is made of rubber. \u201cI always paint my toenails,\u201d she says, \u201cbecause it\u2019s cute, and I want &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/19\/female-amputees-grapple-with-prosthetics-for-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Female amputees grapple with prosthetics for men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}