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In 2012, Lindsay Ess underwent revolutionary hand transplants after losing her limbs to an infection.

View an inspiring ABC slideshow at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/slideshow/lindsay-ess-quadruple-amputees-hands-18126047.

Recommended Books

A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi Basic Books, 274 pp., $18.00 (paper)
Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and and Emotions by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, translated from the Italian by Frances Anderson Oxford University Press,242 pp., $49.95
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks Quill, 328 pp., $16.00 (paper)
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D., Viking, 427pp, $24.95

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