Artificial parts, practical lives : modern histories of prosthetics
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Type of record: Book
Title: Artificial parts, practical lives : modern histories of prosthetics
Classmark: Bamji Collection/OTT
Additional creator(s): Ott, Katherine (Other); Serlin, David Harley (Other); Mihm, Stephen (1968-) (Other)
Related people: Ott, Katherine; Serlin, David Harley; Mihm, Stephen
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication city: New York
Date(s): c2002
Language: English
Size and medium: vi, 359 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/364949
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010010829705181
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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