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Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820-1939 /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.