Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Sum of Its Parts: An Introduction to Modern Histories of Prosthetics 1
4. PART I NEED
5. 1 Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics after World War Two 43
6. 2 Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran Artificially Rebuilding State and Society in World War One Germany 75
7. 3 From Cotton to Silicone Breast Prosthesis before 1950 102
8. 4 “How a One-Legged Rebel Lives” Confederate Veterans and Artificial Limbs in Virginia 119
9. PART II DESIGN
10. 5 Hard Wear and Soft Tissue Craft and Commerce in Artificial Eyes 145
11. 6 Modern Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic Prosthetics 171
12. 7 Casing the Joint: The Material Development of Artificial Hips 199
13. 8 “There’s No Language for This” Communication and Alignment in Contemporary Prosthetics 227
14. PART III USE AND REPRESENTATION
15. 9 The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study, Photography, and the Industrialized Body in World War I America 247
16. 10 “A Limb Which Shall Be Presentable in Polite Society” Prosthetic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century 282
17. 11 The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin 300
18. 12 Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur Foot Prosthesis 327
19. Contributors 349
20. Index 351