Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820–1939

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Title Page
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Dedication
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
Series editors\' foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I The commodification of hearing aids and aids to hearing
	1 Purchase, use and adaptation: Interpreting ‘patented’ aids to the deaf in Victorian Britain
		Deafness vs. hearing loss as interpretive themes
		Hearing aids as patent ‘solutions’ for deafness
		The hearing-aid companies: Rein, Hawksley and Arnold
		The predatory hearing-aid ‘patentees’
		Personalising hearing aids in use
		Conclusion
		Notes
	2 Between cure and prosthesis: ‘Good fit’ in artificial eardrums
		Designating a cure
		Design modifications
		Patenting practice
		Unseen comfort
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
	3 Inventing amplified telephony: The co-creation of aural technology and disability
		Controversies and co-construction: the disputes surrounding the design of amplified telephony
		The quest for standardisation: embodied knowledge immersed into measurement
		The relationship between patents and community inventions
		Conclusion
		Notes
II The commodification of artificial limbs and associated appliances
	4 ‘A hand for the one-.handed’: Prosthesis user-.inventors and the market for assistive technologies in early nineteenth-.cent
		The publication of polite prostheses
		Praise from respectable readers
		Exclusions of class and gender
		Conclusion
		Notes
	5 ‘Get the best article in the market’: Prostheses for women in nineteenth-.century literature and commerce
		Indefatigability and invisibility: A. A. Marks’s legs for men and women
		Fiction and falsehood: literary guides for selecting false teeth and artificial legs
		Lumbering legs and wonderful wigs: commercial literature and fiction
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
	6 Itinerant manipulators and public benefactors: Artificial limb patents, medical professionalism and the moral economy in ante
		The ‘surgeon-.artist’: a productive hybridity
		Patents, professionalism and moral economy
		Notes
	7 Separating the surgical and commercial: Space, prosthetics and the First World War
		Demarcated spaces: limb-.fitting in the nineteenth century
		Amputation and prostheses in the First World War
		The reconfiguration of spaces
		Conclusion
		Notes
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