| Description |
1 online resource (218 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Disability History MUP
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Disability History MUP.
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| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Hörgerät. |
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld. |
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Prosthesis -- History -- 19th century.
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Prosthesis. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Prosthesis -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Prosthesis industry -- Great Britain -- History.
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Prosthesis industry. |
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Great Britain. |
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Prosthesis industry -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Claire L. Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939. Oxford : Manchester University Press, ©2017 |
| ISBN |
9781526113535 (electronic book) |
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1526113538 (electronic book) |
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9781526124166 |
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1526124165 |
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1526101424 |
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9781526101426 |
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