Van Phillips Video History Interview
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Ossur North America
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Ott, Katherine
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Phillips, Van
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Dennis, Maggie
label: Collection Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Van Phillips Oral History and Papers
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content: Van Phillips Oral History and Papers / Series 1: Video Oral History
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004-02-27
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Video 859.4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Total Running Time: 27:30

Phillips discusses the differences between amputees and wheelchair bound individuals; his feelings about his disability; life before his waterskiing accident; the future of prosthetic technology; powered prosthetic feet; the C-leg; osseo-integration; and gives advice to new amputees.