Jones / Unknown Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820–1939

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1353-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Jones, Claire L.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie Prothetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures: an introduction - Claire L. Jones
Part I. The commodification of hearing aids and aids to hearing
2. Purchase, use and adaptation: interpreting 'patented' aids to the deaf in Victorian Britain - Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer
3. Between cure and prosthetic: 'good fit' in artificial eardrums - Jaipreet Virdi-Dhesi
4. Inventing amplified telephony: the co-creation of aural technology and disability - Coreen McGuire
Part II. The commodification of artificial limbs and associated appliances
5. 'A hand for the one-handed': user-inventors and the market for assistive technologies in early nineteenth-century Britain - Laurel Daen
6. 'Get the best article in the market': prostheses for women in nineteenth-century literature and commerce - Ryan Sweet
7. Itinerant manipulators and public benefactors: artificial limb patents, medical professionalism and the moral economy in antebellum America - Caroline Lieffers
8. Separating the surgical and commercial: Space, prosthetics and the First World War - Julie Anderson
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claire L. Jones is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent