This overview paper summarizes work in new materials and designs for prostheses and reports on the papers presented at the Fifteenth Annual Day Conference, held at Leeds, 5 January 1990, by the Bioengineering Group for the Study of Human Joints in association with the Biological Engineering Society.
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Bioengineering Group for the study of Human Joints, University of Leeds 15th Annual Day Conference, 5th January 1990, New engineering concepts and alternative materials for prostheses.
