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Making disability modern : design histories / edited by Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Williamson, Bess, editor.
Guffey, Elizabeth E., editor.
Bloomsbury (Firm)
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Self-help devices for people with disabilities--Design and construction--History.
Self-help devices for people with disabilities.
Design--Human factors.
Design.
Barrier-free design--History.
Barrier-free design.
History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) : illustrations (black and white
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Part 1 Designers and Users from Craft to Industry
1 The Material Culture of Gout in Early America p. 19 / Nicole Belolan
2 Walking Cane Style and Medicalized Mobility p. 43 / Cara Kiernan Fallon
3 Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal p. 61 / Caroline Lieffers
4 Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850-1950 p. 77 / Aparna Nair
Part 2 Disability and World-Making in the Twentieth Century
5 The Ideologies of Designing for Disability p. 101 / Elizabeth Guffey
6 Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship p. 113 / Wanda Katja Liebermann
7 Disability and Modern Chemical Sensitivities p. 131 / Debra Riley Parr
8 Design for Deaf Education: Early History of the NTID p. 143 / Kristoffer Whitney
9 Designing the Japanese Walking Bag p. 159 / Elizabeth Guffey
10 The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design p. 177 / Jennifer Kaufmam-Buhler
11 Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline & LifeCall p. 193 / Elizabeth Ellcessor
12 3D-Printed Prosthetics and the Uses of Design p. 209 / Bess Williamson
13 Materializing User Identities & Digital Humanities p. 225 / Jaipreet Virdi.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
9781350070455
1350070459
Publisher Number:
99985748141
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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