Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820–1939

Claire L. Jones is Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent

• 1. Modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures: an introduction - Claire L. Jones Part I. The commodification of hearing aids and aids to hearing 2. Purchase, use and adaptation: interpreting 'patented' aids to the deaf in Victorian Britain - Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer 3. Between cure and prosthetic: 'good fit' in artificial eardrums - Jaipreet Virdi-Dhesi4. Inventing amplified telephony: the co-creation of aural technology and disability - Coreen McGuire Part II. The commodification of artificial limbs and associated appliances 5. 'A hand for the one-handed': user-inventors and the market for assistive technologies in early nineteenth-century Britain - Laurel Daen6. 'Get the best article in the market': prostheses for women in nineteenth-century literature and commerce - Ryan Sweet 7. Itinerant manipulators and public benefactors: artificial limb patents, medical professionalism and the moral economy in antebellum America - Caroline Lieffers8. Separating the surgical and commercial: Space, prosthetics and the First World War - Julie AndersonIndex