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Artificial parts, practical...
From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings. The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the relationship between technological change and the civilizing process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body po
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monografia Rebiun18733344 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun18733344 m o d cr |n|---||||| 120319s2002 nyua ob 001 0 eng d 9780814762431 0814762433 9780814761984 0814761984 0814761976 9780814761977 UPVA 998797489403706 UAM 991008080891504211 CBUC 991013163450906708 EBLCP eng pn EBLCP OCLCQ KCP OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ HVC YDXCP NJI CN8ML P@U COO NT OCLCQ UNAV 617/.9 Artificial parts, practical lives Recurso electrónico] modern histories of prosthetics edited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm New York New York University Press 2002 New York New York New York University Press 365 p. 365 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice 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 From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings. The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the relationship between technological change and the civilizing process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body po Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Ott, Katherine Serlin, David Mihm, Stephen 1968-)