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Artificial Parts, Practical Lives : Modern Histories of Prosthetics /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: The Sum of Its Parts: An Introduction to Modem Histories
- of Prosthetics 1
- Katherine Ott
- I: Need
- I Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics
- after World War Two 45
- David Serlin
- 2 Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially Rebuilding
- State and Society in World War One Germany 75
- Heather R. Perry
- 3 From Cotton to Silicone: Breast Prosthesis before 1950 102
- Kirsten E. Gardner
- 4 "How a One-Legged Rebel Lives": Confederate Veterans
- and Artificial Limbs in Virginia 119
- Jennifer Davis McDaid
- II: Design
- 5 Hard Wear and Soft Tissue: Craft and Commerce in
- Artificial Eyes 147
- Katherine Ott
- 6 Modem Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic
- Prosthetics 171
- Elizabeth Haiken
- 7 Casing the Joint: The Material Development of
- Artificial Hips 199
- Alex Faulkner
- 8 "There's No Language for This": Communication and
- Alignment in Contemporary Prosthetics
- Steven Kurzman
- III: Use and Representation
- 9 The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study,
- Photography, and the Industrialized Body in
- World War I America
- Elspeth Brown
- 10 "A Limb Which Shall Be Presentable in Polite Society":
- Prosthetic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century
- Stephen Mihm
- 11 The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin
- David Waldstreicher
- 12 Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur
- Foot Prothesis
- Raman Srinivasan.