{"product_id":"making-disability-modern-9781350070424","title":"Making Disability Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Disability Modern: Design Histories\u003c\/i\u003e brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives 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. The contributors reveal the social role of objects - particularly those designed for use by people with disabilities, such as walking sticks, wheelchairs, and prosthetic limbs - and consider the active role that makers, users and designers take to reshape the material environment into a usable world. But it also aims to make clear that definitions of disabilityand abilityare often shaped by design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Disability Modern\u003c\/i\u003e makes a good reader that maps out the areas of tension, new discourse, and discussion points about design and disability from practical, social, cultural, and technological perspectives. * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes visible often-obscured aspects of human life, the built environment, and societal factors that materialize through design, disability, and their intersections over history and across continents. -- Meryl Alper, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University, USA\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating collection of critical cultural histories of disability objects, woven together with a narrative of ‘the modern’ and its connotations in society, industry and design. We need more books like this to connect disability studies and design. -- Graham Pullin, Professor of Design and Disability, University of Dundee, UK\u003cbr\u003eAt last! Since the publication in 2002 of the groundbreaking anthology, \u003ci\u003eArtificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press), scholarship has boomed at the intersection of disability studies and the history of technology. This new collection from Bloomsbury brings readers up to date with developments in the field, revising familiar historical throughlines with an original “design model of disability.” Rather than situate disability outside modernism, with its predilection for clean lines and average bodies, the authors in \u003ci\u003eMaking Disability Modern\u003c\/i\u003e rethink “dismodern” design and the modern ambitions of disabled designers themselves. -- Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction: Rethinking Design History through Disability, Rethinking Disability through Design \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection I: Designers and Users From Craft to Industry\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction 1. The Material Culture of Gout in Early America, \u003ci\u003eNicole Belolan (Rutgers University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Walking Cane Style and Medicalized Mobility, \u003ci\u003eCara Kiernan Fallon (University of Pennsylvania, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal, \u003ci\u003eCaroline Lieffers (Yale University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850–1950, \u003ci\u003eAparna Nair (University of Oklahoma, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e Section II: Disability and World-Making in the Twentieth Century \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction 5. The Ideologies of Designing for Disability, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Guffey (Purdue University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship, \u003ci\u003eWanda Katja Liebermann (Florida Atlantic University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Disability and Modern Chemical Sensitivities, \u003ci\u003eDebra Riley Parr (Columbia College Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Design for Deaf Education: An Early History of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, \u003ci\u003eKristoffer Whitney (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Designing the Japanese Walking Bag, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Guffey (Purdue University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eSection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e: Making Disability Digital\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction 10. The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design, \u003ci\u003eJennifer Kaufmann-Buhler (Purdue University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e11. Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline \u0026amp; LifeCall, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Ellcessor (University of Virginia, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. 3D Printed Prosthetics and the Uses of Design, \u003ci\u003eBess Williamson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Materializing User Identities and Digital Humanities, \u003ci\u003eJaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039329583447,"sku":"9781350070424","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350070424.jpg?v=1750943340","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-disability-modern-9781350070424","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}