Fate of prosthetics research as the Bulletin of Prosthetics Research has become the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

摘要

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a continuous history of publishing the journal now called the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD). While the first issues were published by the Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, it took 3 years before Eugene Murphy published an editorial reminding the readers that sensory aids were supposed to be part of the mix. That issue, Bulletin of Prosthetics Research (BPR) 10-2, had five articles on reading machines and other sensory aids. In 1978, a subtitle of “Rehabilitative Engineering Research and Development” was added to the title page because it became apparent that the journal needed to expand the way it was serving veterans. Finally in 1983, the format and title were changed to the present JRRD.