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 859.3
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: 28:20

In this portion of the interview, Phillips talks about his amputation surgery and a subsequent surgery (Ertl technique) 10 years later to correct the first amputation; being able to finally use his own foot designs because it no longer hurt his stump to do so; his experiences with the patent system and the toll litigation takes defending his patents; working with Aimee Mullins and Dennis Oehler; the rise of the sprint leg in popular culture; and his thoughts and opinions about people with disabilities and the culture that surrounds them.