{"product_id":"artificial-parts-practical-lives-modern-histories-of-prosthetics-paperback-softback-9780814761984","title":"Artificial Parts, Practical Lives; Modern Histories of Prosthetics (Paperback \/ softback) 9780814761984","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArtificial Parts, Practical Lives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModern Histories of Prosthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatherine Ott (Edited by), David Serlin (Edited by), Stephen Mihm (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814761984\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e359 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.522 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"These essays are valuable first forays into the history of prosthetics.\" (Technology and Culture)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings.\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003cbr\u003e  Simultaneously critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing prosthetics, \u003cb\u003eArtificial Parts, Practical Lives\u003c\/b\u003e lays out a balanced and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor celebrating the merger of flesh and machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52521324151064,"sku":"9780814761984","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/artificial-parts-practical-lives-modern-histories-of-prosthetics-paperback-softback-9780814761984","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}