Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820–1939

• Published in: Victorian Studies Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 130 - 132
• Main Author: Prizel, Natalie
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 22.09.2018
• Subjects: 19th century; Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889); Commodification; Commodities; Consumption; Cultural identity; Deafness; Dialectics; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Disability studies; Essays; Ethics; Inventors; Medicine; Nonfiction; Physicians; Post offices; Prostheses; Prosthetic devices; Science history; Telephones; Victorian period; Working class

[...]to combine that approach with a "commodification approach" to discuss the uneasy intersections among medicine, technology, patent law, and prostheses in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries brings the attendant risk of turning disabled subjects into mere consumers rather than a mino...