| Contents |
Introduction: Rethinking Design History through Disability, Rethinking Disability through Design Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson -- Pt. 1. Designers and Users from Craft to Industry -- The Material Culture of Gout in Early America Nicole Belolan -- Walking Cane Style and Medicalized Mobility Cara Kiernan Fallon -- Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal Carolline Lieffers --Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850-1950 Aparna Nair -- Pt. 2. Disability and World-Making in the Twentieth Century -- Pt. 3. Making Disability Digital -- Index |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Making disability modern London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020 9781350070431 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781350070448 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1350070440 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781350070455 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1350070459 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (HB) |
| ISBN | (HB) |
| ISBN | (PB) |
| ISBN | (PB) |
| Stock number | 1B61C655-A1DB-46BC-9B0C-D5C202AB1170 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
