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Author Jones, Claire L., author

Title Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity cultures, 1820-1939 / edited by Claire L. Jones
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages)
Series Disability History MUP
Disability History MUP
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Händel ...
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Prosthesis -- History -- 19th century
Prosthesis -- History -- 20th century
Prosthesis industry -- Great Britain -- History
Prosthesis industry -- United States -- History
Prostheses and Implants -- history
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
MEDICAL / History
Prosthesis
Prosthesis industry
Hörgerät
Prothese
Behinderung
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form Ressources Internet
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017394306
ISBN 9781526113535
1526113538
9781526124166
1526124165
9781526113542
1526113546