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001 2001006460
003 DLC
005 20141111074914.0
008 011102s2002 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001006460
020 $a0814761976 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0814761984 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRD130$b.A784 2002
082 00 $a617/.9$221
245 00 $aArtificial parts, practical lives :$bmodern histories of prosthetics /$cedited by Katherine Ott, David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$cc2002.
300 $avi, 359 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: The Sum of Its Parts: An Introduction to Modem Histories -- of Prosthetics 1 -- Katherine Ott -- I: Need -- I Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics -- after World War Two 45 -- David Serlin -- 2 Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially Rebuilding -- State and Society in World War One Germany 75 -- Heather R. Perry -- 3 From Cotton to Silicone: Breast Prosthesis before 1950 102 -- Kirsten E. Gardner -- 4 "How a One-Legged Rebel Lives": Confederate Veterans -- and Artificial Limbs in Virginia 119 -- Jennifer Davis McDaid -- II: Design -- 5 Hard Wear and Soft Tissue: Craft and Commerce in -- Artificial Eyes 147 -- Katherine Ott -- 6 Modem Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic -- Prosthetics 171 -- Elizabeth Haiken -- 7 Casing the Joint: The Material Development of -- Artificial Hips 199 -- Alex Faulkner -- 8 "There's No Language for This": Communication and -- Alignment in Contemporary Prosthetics -- Steven Kurzman -- III: Use and Representation -- 9 The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study, -- Photography, and the Industrialized Body in -- World War I America -- Elspeth Brown -- 10 "A Limb Which Shall Be Presentable in Polite Society": -- Prosthetic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century -- Stephen Mihm -- 11 The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin -- David Waldstreicher -- 12 Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur -- Foot Prothesis -- Raman Srinivasan.
650 0 $aProsthesis$xHistory.
700 1 $aOtt, Katherine.
700 1 $aSerlin, David.
700 1 $aMihm, Stephen,$d1968-
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d0y6-aa
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001006460.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2001006460-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2001006460-b.html