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i RETHINKING MODERN PROSTHESES IN ANGLO-A MERICAN COMMODITY CULTURES, 1820–1 939 ii Series editors Dr Julie Anderson, Professor Walton O. Schalick, III This new series published by Manchester University Press responds to the growing interest in disability as a discipline worthy of historical research. The series has a broad international historical remit, encompassing issues that include class, race, gender, age, war, medical treatment, professionalisation, environments, work, institutions and cultural and social aspects of disablement including representations of disabled people in literature, film, art and the media. Already published Deafness, community and culture in Britain: leisure and cohesion, 1945– 95 Martin Atherton Destigmatising mental illness? Professional politics and public education in Britain, 1870– 1970 Vicky Long Fools and idiots? Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages Irina Metzler Framing the moron: the social construction of feeble- mindedness in the American eugenics era Gerald V. O’Brien Recycling the disabled: army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany Heather R. Perry Worth saving: disabled children during the Second World War Sue Wheatcroft iii RETHINKING MODERN PROSTHESES IN ANGLO- AMERICAN COMMODITY CULTURES, 1820– 1939 Edited by Claire L. Jones Manchester University Press iv Copyright © Manchester University Press 2017 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 1 5261 0142 6 hardback First published 2017 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Out of House Publishing v This volume is dedicated with respect, love and affection to my grandparents, Fred and Louise Callon. They met at Anerley Deaf School, London in the 1930s and it is through them that I came to understand, appreciate and value Deaf/ deaf history and culture. vi vii Contents List of illustrations ix Notes on contributors xi Series editors’ foreword xv Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: modern prostheses in Anglo- American commodity cultures 1 Claire L. Jones I The commodification of hearing aids and aids to hearing 25 1 Purchase, use and adaptation: interpreting ‘patented’ aids to the deaf in Victorian Britain 27 Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer 2 Between cure and prosthesis: ‘good fit’ in artificial eardrums 48 Jaipreet Virdi 3 Inventing amplified telephony: the co- creation of aural technology and disability 70 Coreen McGuire II The commodification of artificial limbs and associated appliances 91 4 ‘A hand for the one- handed’: prosthesis user- inventors and the market for assistive technologies in early nineteenth- century Britain 93 Laurel Daen 5 ‘Get the best article in the market’: prostheses for women in nineteenth- century literature and commerce 114 Ryan Sweet 6 Itinerant manipulators and public benefactors: artificial limb patents, medical professionalism and the moral economy in antebellum America 137 Caroline Lieffers viii viii CONTENTS 7 Separating the surgical and commercial: space, prosthetics and the First World War 158 Julie Anderson Select bibliography 179 Index 180
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