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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.
Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820–1939
- Hardcover
216 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2017
Summary
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 be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526101426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526101424 |
| Author: | Claire L. Jones |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Imprint: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 138mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Disability History |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
138 × 216 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
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About The Author
Claire L. Jones
Claire L. Jones is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent
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