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Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics Elsa Davidson
Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics
Elsa Davidson
The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the relationship between technological change and the civilizing process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body politics, and culture.
366 pages, halftones, 68 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 1, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780814761984 |
| Publishers | New York University Press |
| Pages | 359 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 227 × 24 mm · 494 g |
| Editor | Mihm, Stephen |
| Editor | Ott, Katherine |
| Editor | Serlin, David |