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Language: en
Pages: 365
Pages: 365
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: NYU Press
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 approx
Language: en
Pages: 365
Pages: 365
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: NYU Press
Simultaneously critiquing, historicizing and theorizing prosthetics, this text lays out a balanced and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor cel
Language: en
Pages: 180
Pages: 180
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-26 - Publisher: BRILL
This volume discusses fluidity of the post-human bodies on various cultural and social examples – from the cyber relations to others and to self, through frag
Language: en
Pages: 214
Pages: 214
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
The first biography of one of the Civil War's most famous disabled veterans and most prominent public figures in the Gilded Age. An examination of the dynamics
Language: en
Pages: 399
Pages: 399
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-13 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, d
