Prosthetics in Antiquity
The Ancients
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Prosthesis Users - Are They Making a Point?
Up until very recently, in fact, prosthesis users wanted their proceses to be as realistic and naturalistic as possible. In antiquity, the reverse was true, that if you were trying to disguise the fact that you were missing a body party using a proesis instead, that would lead you to be criticised quite harshly for trying to deceive people. And so what ancient prosthesis users were trying to do woud rather make a feature of their prosthesis like modern contemporary proceses users have as well. They've started to personalize their processes, use them as a means of expressing their own identity,. they're getting it now. Any any things loov intereting and quirky
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