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

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

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This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of prosthetic technologies and in turn, disability identities. Through case studies that focus on hearing aids, artificial tympanums, amplified telephones, artificial limbs, wigs and dentures, this book provides a new account of the historic relationship between prostheses, disability and industry. Essays draw on neglected source material, including patent records, trade literature and artefacts, to uncover the historic processes of commodification surrounding different prostheses and the involvement of neglected companies, philanthropists, medical practitioners, veterans, businessmen, wives, mothers and others in these processes.

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Index
able-bodied 2, 4, 10, 11, 95, 101, 106
pass as 2, 10, 18, 116, 121, 132
see also body
accident 1, 30, 99
car 132
childhood 137
flying 11
industrial 7
riding 127
adaptation
of devices 11
of prostheses 6, 17, 104, 108, 149
of hearing aids 27, 39, 41–2
advertising 15–2, 34–5, 38–9, 55, 60–1, 75, 129–31, 146–7, 156n.60, 160–1
bills 38
mail-order see catalogue
medical 130
newspaper 38, 160
see also newspaper
patents as tools of 15, 22n.38
see also patent
periodical 57
rhetoric 118
trade catalogue see catalogue
see also marketing; promotion
aesthetics 36, 49, 118, 125
see also design
Allied Exhibition of Orthopaedic Work see exhibitions
aluminium 55, 164, 173
American Civil War 7–8, 11–12, 15, 114, 121, 134n.26, 165, 176n.18, 176n.36
amputee 7, 114, 121, 146
soldier 152
see also war
American Leg see leg; Palmer, B. Frank
American Medical Association Code of Ethics (1847) 137, 144, 147–9, 152n.3, 155n.40
see also ethics
American Medical Times see publications
amplified telephony 9, 70–3, 75, 77, 82, 84, 86–7
see a...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of illustrations
  9. List of contributors
  10. Series editors’ foreword
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Introduction: Modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures
  13. I The commodification of hearing aids and aids to hearing
  14. II The commodification of artificial limbs and associated appliances
  15. Select bibliography
  16. Index