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Artificial parts, practical lives : modern histories of prosthetics
- Title
- Artificial parts, practical lives : modern histories of prosthetics / edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 359 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Prosthesis > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The sum of its parts : an introduction to modern histories of prosthetics / Katherine Ott -- Engineering masculinity : veterans and prosthetics after World War Two / David Serlin -- Re-arming the disabled veteran : artificially rebuilding state and society in World War One Germany / Heather R. Perry -- From cotton to silicone : breast prosthesis before 1950 / Kirsten E. Gardner -- "How a one-legged rebel lives" : Confederate veterans and artificial limbs in Virginia / Jennifer Davis McDaid -- Hard wear and soft tissue : craft and commerce in artificial eyes / Katherine Ott -- Modern miracles : the development of cosmetic prosthetics / Elizabeth Haiken -- Casing the joint : the material development of artificial hips / Alex Faulkner -- "There's no language for this" : communication and alignment in contemporary prosthetics / Steven Kurzman -- The prosthetics of management : motion study, photography, and the industrialized body in World War I America / Elspeth Brown -- "A limb which shall be presentable in polite society" : prosthetic technologies in the nineteenth century / Stephen Mihm -- The long arm of Benjamin Franklin / David Waldstreicher -- Technology sits cross-legged : developing the Jaipur foot prothesis / Raman Srinivasan.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-21404
- ISBN
- 0814761976 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814761984 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001006460
- OCLC
- 48383289
- Title
- Artificial parts, practical lives : modern histories of prosthetics / edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Added Author
- Ott, Katherine.Serlin, David.Mihm, Stephen.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-21404