Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820-1939 / edited by Claire L. Jones.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Description
xiii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Editor
    Series
    Disability history [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Purchase, use and adaptation : interpreting 'patented' aids to the deaf in Victorian Britain / Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer
    • Between cure and prosthesis : 'good fit' in artificial eardrums / Jaipreet Virdi
    • Inventing amplified telephony : the co-creation of aural technology and disability / Coreen McGuire
    • 'A hand for the one-handed' : prosthesis user-inventors and the market for assistive technologies in early nineteenth-century Britain / Laurel Daen
    • 'Get the best article in the market' : prostheses for women in nineteenth-century literature and commerce / Ryan Sweet
    • Itinerant manipulators and public benefactors : artificial limb patents, medical professionalism and the moral economy in antebellum America / Caroline Lieffers
    • Separating the surgical and commercial : space, prosthetics and the First World War / Julie Anderson.
    ISBN
    • 9781526101426 ((hardback))
    • 1526101424 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2017394306
    OCLC
    958085572
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