Description: Further DetailsTitle: Artificial Parts, Practical LivesCondition: NewSubtitle: Modern Histories of ProstheticsISBN-10: 0814761976EAN: 9780814761977ISBN: 9780814761977Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/01/2002Description: From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings. The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the relationship between technological change and the civilizing process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body politics, and culture. Simultaneously critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing prosthetics, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives lays out a balanced and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor celebrating the merger of flesh and machine.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 612gContributor: Katherine Ott (Edited by), David Serlin (Edited by), Stephen Mihm (Edited by)Genre: MedicineTopic: Science Nature & Math, HistoryAuthor: Katherine OttRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Artificial Parts, Practical Lives
Title: Artificial Parts, Practical Lives
Subtitle: Modern Histories of Prosthetics
ISBN-10: 0814761976
EAN: 9780814761977
ISBN: 9780814761977
Release Date: 04/01/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Stephen Mihm (Edited by)
Genre: Medicine
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 359 Pages
Publication Name: Artificial Parts, Practical Lives : Modern Histories of Prosthetics
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Prosthesis
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.6 Oz
Author: David Serlin
Subject Area: Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
