Building A Better Body
By: Allie Copple, Nora Schmidt, Emily Tewes and Taylor Koch
THESIS
Advancements
- Move naturally/become indistinguishable from real limbs
- Targeted Muscle Reinnervation
- Able to feel heat/pressure
- Bluetooth technology
Benefits of Prosthesis
- Prosthesis allow soldiers to get back into the field faster
- Prosthesis are almost exactly like the real body part
- Does not mean that soldiers have to give up what they love
Types of Prosthesis
- Scientists have made a digital pancreas that regulates a diabetic's blood sugar better than with a pump.
- Cochlear implants improve children's quality of life and help them develop socially and emotionally.
- Stanford developed an eye implant that hopefully can restore blind peoples' sight.
- Face implants helped a woman be able to go out in public.
- A prosthetic hippocampus may allow people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory problems to create long-term memories.
- A prosthetic could give people back the ability to speak.
- The LVAD saves the lives of many people.
- New improvements on the an artificial heart could be a good option for people in heart failure.
ETHICS OF PROSTHESIS AND IMPLANTS
Quality of life: individuals ability to enjoy normal activities, including the concepts of functional capacity and well being
"Tech rich" and those who are "Tech poor"
Conclusion
- Gives people a second chance at life.
- Not only limited to arms and legs, can include organs too.
- Allows soldiers to go back into combat, and cures many diseases.
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