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

Date:
2020
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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Physical description

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

Contents

Introduction. Rethinking design history through disability, rethinking disability through design -- Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    Medical Collection
    NA2547 2020M23
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ISBN

  • 9781350070431
  • 1350070432