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

Claire L. Jones

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781526113542
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Rheumatology, Orthopedics & Prosthetics

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.

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...