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
politics, and culture.
Simultaneously critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing
prosthetics, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives lays out a balanced
and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor
celebrating the merger of flesh and machine.
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