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Artificial Parts, Practical Lives Modern Histories of Prosthetics

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ISBN-10: 0814761984

ISBN-13: 9780814761984

Edition: 2002

Authors: Katherine Ott, David Serlin, Stephen Mihm

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From the Bly prosthesis to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the design of technologies of the body are intertwined with the needs of human beings.
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 359
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Katherine Ott is a curator of Science, Medicine, and Society at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, which houses the largest collection of medical artifacts in the U.S.

David Serlinis a research historian and exhibitions curator in the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.Stephen Mihmis a doctoral candidate in history at New York University.

The Sum of Its Parts: An Introduction to Modern Histories of Prosthetics
Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics after World War Two
Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially Rebuilding State and Society in World War One Germany
From Cotton to Silicone: Breast Prosthesis before 1950
"How a One-Legged Rebel Lives": Confederate Veterans and Artificial Limbs in Virginia
Hard Wear and Soft Tissue: Craft and Commerce in Artificial Eyes
Modern Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic Prosthetics
Casing the Joint: The Material Development of Artificial Hips
"There's No Language for This": Communication and Alignment in Contemporary Prosthetics
The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study, Photography, and the Industrialized Body in World War I America
"A Limb Which Shall Be Presentable in Polite Society": Prosthetic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century
The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin
Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur Foot Prothesis
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