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

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rethinking Design History through Disability, Rethinking Disability through Design Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA -- Section I: Designers and Users From Craft to Industry Section Introduction -- Chapter 1: Everyday Design in Early America: The Case for Gout Nicole Belolan, Rutgers University, USA -- Chapter 2: From Bespoke to Mass Market: The Medicalization of the Cane in the Twentieth-Century United States Cara Kiernan Fallon, University of Pennsylvania, USA -- Chapter 3: Imperial Designs: Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal Caroline Lieffers, Yale University, USA -- Chapter 4: Of Ear Trumpets, Audiphones and the 'Language of the Fingers' (Kar Pallavi Bhasha): Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850-1950 Aparna Nair, University of Oklahoma, USA -- Section II: World-Making Section Introduction -- Chapter 5: The Ideologies of Designing for Disability Elizabeth Guffey, Purdue University, USA -- Chapter 6: Modernizing Invalids: Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship Wanda Katja Liebermann, Florida Atlantic University, USA -- Chapter 7: The Right to Breathe Debra Parr, Columbia College Chicago, USA -- Chapter 8: Design for Deaf Education: An Early History of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA -- Chapter 9: Walking Away from Universal Design Elizabeth Guffey, Purdue University, USA -- Section 3: Making Disability Digital Section Introduction -- Chapter 10: Standardized Technology and Exceptional Bodies: The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design in American Offices Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Purdue University, USA -- Chapter 11: Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline & Life Call Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia, USA -- Chapter 12: 3D Printed Prosthetic Limbs and the Uses of Design Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA -- Chapter 13: Materializing User Identities and Digital Humanities Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware, USA.

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"Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives 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. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities, such as walking sticks, wheelchairs, and prosthetic limbs - and consider the active role that makers, users and designers take to reshape the material environment into a usable world. But it also aims to make clear that definitions of disability-and ability-are often shaped by design."-- Provided by publisher.

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