Artificial Parts, Practical Lives

File Size : 58,58 MB
Total View : 3073 Views
DOWNLOAD

Simultaneously critiquing, historicizing and theorizing prosthetics, this text lays out a balanced and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor cel

Fevered Lives

File Size : 93,93 MB
Total View : 9428 Views
DOWNLOAD

Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor, daintily coughing a small spo

The Accidental Diarist

File Size : 24,24 MB
Total View : 7939 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-

Making Disability Modern

File Size : 90,90 MB
Total View : 5173 Views
DOWNLOAD

Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objec

The Scrapbook in American Life

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 756 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scra