Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820-1939

Herausgeber: Jones, Claire L.

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Disability History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781526101426
• ISBN-10: 1526101424
• Artikelnr.: 47877120

Autorenporträt

Claire L. Jones is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modern prostheses in Anglo
American commodity cultures: an introduction
Claire L. Jones Part I. The commodification of hearing aids and aids to hearing 2. Purchase, use and adaptation: interpreting 'patented' aids to the deaf in Victorian Britain
Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer 3. Between cure and prosthetic: 'good fit' in artificial eardrums
Jaipreet Virdi
Dhesi 4. Inventing amplified telephony: the co
creation of aural technology and disability
Coreen McGuire Part II. The commodification of artificial limbs and associated appliances 5. 'A hand for the one
handed': user
inventors and the market for assistive technologies in early nineteenth
century Britain
Laurel Daen 6. 'Get the best article in the market': prostheses for women in nineteenth
century literature and commerce
Ryan Sweet 7. Itinerant manipulators and public benefactors: artificial limb patents, medical professionalism and the moral economy in antebellum America
Caroline Lieffers 8. Separating the surgical and commercial: Space, prosthetics and the First World War
Julie Anderson Index