TY - BOOK ID - 78108658 TI - Artificial parts, practical lives AU - Ott, Katherine AU - Serlin, David AU - Mihm, Stephen PY - 2002 SN - 0814737951 0814762433 9780814762431 9780814761984 0814761984 0814761976 9780814761977 PB - New York New York University Press DB - UniCat KW - Prosthesis KW - Prostheses KW - Prosthetics KW - Moulage in medicine KW - Surgery, Plastic KW - Artificial organs KW - Biomedical materials KW - Implants, Artificial KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78108658 AB - From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective needs of human beings. The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the relationship between technological change and the civilizing process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body po ER -