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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williamson, Bess, editor.

Guffey, Elizabeth E., editor.

Nair, Aparna, writer of supplementary textual content.

Whitney, Kristoffer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Kaufmann-Buhler, Jennifer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Ellcessor, Elizabeth, writer of supplementary textual content.

Virdi, Jaipreet, writer of supplementary textual content.

Nicole Belolan, writer of supplementary textual content.

Cara Kiernan Fallon, writer of supplementary textual content.

Caroline Lieffers, writer of supplementary textual content.

Wanda Katja Liebermann, writer of supplementary textual content.

Debra Riley Parr, writer of supplementary textual content.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barrier-free design.

History.

Self-help devices for people with disabilities.

Self-help devices for people with disabilities--Design and construction--History.

Design--Human factors.

Design.

Barrier-free design--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Designers and Users from Craft to Industry

1. The Material Culture of Gout in Early America / Nicole Belolan

2. Walking Cane Style and Medicalized Mobility / Cara Kiernan Fallon

3. Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal / Caroline Lieffers

4. Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850

1950 / Aparna Nair

pt. 2 Disability and World-Making in the Twentieth Century

5. The Ideologies of Designing for Disability / Elizabeth Guffey

6. Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship / Wanda Katja Liebermann

7. Disability and Modern Chemical Sensitivities / Debra Riley Parr

8. Design for Deaf Education: Early History of the NTID / Kristoffer Whitney

9. Designing the Japanese Walking Bag / Elizabeth Guffey

pt. 3 Making Disability Digital

10. The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design / Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler

11. Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline & LifeCall / Elizabeth Ellcessor

12. 3D-Printed Prosthetics and the Uses of Design / Bess Williamson

13. Materializing User Identities & Digital Humanities / Jaipreet Virdi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781350070431

1350070432

9781350070424

1350070424

OCLC:

1174696338

Publisher Number:

99985748451