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Contents The Sum of Its Parts: An Introduction to Modern Histories of Prosthetics 1 Katherine Ott I: Need 1 Engineering Masculinity: Veterans and Prosthetics after World War Two 45 David Serlin 2 Re-Arming the Disabled Veteran: Artificially Rebuilding State and Society in World War One Germany 75 Heather R. Perry 3 From Cotton to Silicone: Breast Prosthesis before 1950 102 Kirsten E. Gardner 4 ”How a One-Legged Rebel Lives”: Confederate Veterans and Artificial Limbs in Virginia 119 Jennifer Davis McDaid II: Design 5 Hard Wear and Soft Tissue: Craft and Commerce in Artificial Eyes 147 Katherine Ott 6 Modern Miracles: The Development of Cosmetic Prosthetics 171 Elizabeth Haiken 7 Casing the Joint: The Material Development of Artificial Hips 199 Alex Faulkner v 8 ”There’s No Language for This”: Communication and Alignment in Contemporary Prosthetics 227 Steven Kurzman III: Use and Representation 9 The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study, Photography, and the Industrialized Body in World War I America 249 Elspeth Brown 10 ”A Limb Which Shall Be Presentable in Polite Society”: Prosthetic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century 282 Stephen Mihm 11 The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin 300 David Waldstreicher 12 Technology Sits Cross-Legged: Developing the Jaipur Foot Prothesis 327 Raman Srinivasan Contributors 349 Index 351 vi CONTENTS ...

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