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Title:

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

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Visual Arts,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

viii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Self-help devices for people with disabilities--History.--History.
Design--Human factors.
Barrier-free design--History.
Self-help devices for people with disabilities.
Communication devices for people with disabilities.

Other Authors:

Williamson, Bess, editor.
Guffey, Elizabeth E., editor.
Nair, Aparna, writer of supplementary textual content.
Whitney, Kristoffer, writer of supplementary textual content.
Kaufmann-Buhler, Jennifer, writer of supplementary textual content.
Ellcessor, Elizabeth, writer of supplementary textual content.
Virdi, Jaipreet, writer of supplementary textual content.
Belolan, Nicole, writer of supplementary textual content.
Fallon, Cara Kiernan, writer of supplementary textual content.
Lieffers, Caroline, writer of supplementary textual content.
Liebermann, Wanda Katja, writer of supplementary textual content.
Parr, Debra Riley, writer of supplementary textual content.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

13. Materializing user identities & digital humanities / Jaipreet Virdi. Part I. Designers and users from craft to industry -- 1. The material culture of gout in early America / Nicole Belolan -- 2. Walking cane style and medicalized mobility / Cara Kiernan Fallon -- 3. Artificial limbs on the Panama Canal / Caroline Lieffers -- 4. Technologies for the deaf in British India, 1850-1950 / Aparna Nair -- Part II. Disability and world-making in the twentieth century -- 5. The ideologies of designing for disability / Elizabeth Guffey -- 6. Architecture, science, and disabled citizenship / Wanda Katja Liebermann -- 7. Disability and modern chemical sensitivities / Debra Riley Parr -- 8. Design for deaf education : early history of the NTID / Kristoffer Whitney -- 9. Designing the Japanese walking bag / Elizabeth Guffey -- Part III. Making disability digital -- 10. The politics and logistics of ergonomic design / Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler -- 11. Designing emergency access : Lifeline & LifeCall / Elizabeth Ellcessor -- 12. 3D-printed prosthetics and the uses of design / Bess Williamson -- 13. Materializing user identities & digital humanities / Jaipreet Virdi.

Summary:

Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars 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.

ISBN:

1350070424
9781350070424
1350070432
9781350070431

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)