Making Disability Modern : Design Histories (Paperback)

Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Design History through Disability, Rethinking Disability through Design Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Section I: Designers and Users From Craft to Industry Section Introduction Chapter 1: Everyday Design in Early America: The Case for Gout Nicole Belolan, Rutgers University, USA Chapter 2: From Bespoke to Mass Market: The Medicalization of the Cane in the Twentieth-Century United States Cara Kiernan Fallon, University of Pennsylvania, USA Chapter 3: Imperial Designs: Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal Caroline Lieffers, Yale University, USA Chapter 4: Of Ear Trumpets, Audiphones and the 'Language of the Fingers' (Kar Pallavi Bhasha): Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850-1950 Aparna Nair, University of Oklahoma, USA Section II: World-Making Section Introduction Chapter 5: The Ideologies of Designing for Disability Elizabeth Guffey, Purdue University, USA Chapter 6: Modernizing Invalids: Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship Wanda Katja Liebermann, Florida Atlantic University, USA Chapter 7: The Right to Breathe Debra Parr, Columbia College Chicago, USA Chapter 8: Design for Deaf Education: An Early History of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Chapter 9: Walking Away from Universal Design Elizabeth Guffey, Purdue University, USA Section 3: Making Disability Digital Section Introduction Chapter 10: Standardized Technology and Exceptional Bodies: The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design in American Offices Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Purdue University, USA Chapter 11: Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline & Life Call Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia, USA Chapter 12: 3D Printed Prosthetic Limbs and the Uses of Design Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Chapter 13: Materializing User Identities and Digital Humanities Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware, USA