Making disability modern : design histories / edited by Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson.
- Date:
- 2020
- Books
About this work
Description
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.
Publication/Creation
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
Physical description
viii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Contributors
- Williamson, Besseditor
- Guffey, Elizabeth E.editor
- Nair, Aparnawriter of supplementary textual content
- Whitney, Kristofferwriter of supplementary textual content
- Kaufmann-Buhler, Jenniferwriter of supplementary textual content
- Ellcessor, Elizabethwriter of supplementary textual content
- Virdi, Jaipreetwriter of supplementary textual content
- Nicole Belolanwriter of supplementary textual content
- Cara Kiernan Fallonwriter of supplementary textual content
- Caroline Liefferswriter of supplementary textual content
- Wanda Katja Liebermannwriter of supplementary textual content
- Debra Riley Parrwriter of supplementary textual content
Contents
Introduction. Rethinking design history through disability, rethinking disability through design -- Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson -- 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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionNA2547 2020M23Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781350070431
- 1350070432