Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820-1939 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jones, Claire L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities. Through case studies that focus on hearing aids, artificial tympanums, amplified telephones, artificial limbs, wigs and dentures, this book provides a new account of the historic relationship between prostheses, disability and industry. Essays draw on neglected source material, including patent records, trade literature and artefacts, to uncover the historic processes of commodification surrounding different prostheses and the involvement of neglected companies, philanthropists, medical practitioners, veterans, businessmen, wives, mothers and others in these processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526113542
• Artikelnr.: 48795668

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