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Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. *Flash Sale* 30% OFF* Unmarked text. Collection of articles on the peculiar history of prosthetic devices that sheds light on the relationship between technological change and the civilizing process of modernity. The book also analyzes the concrete materials of prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body politics, and culture. Black-and-white illustrations. Topics include veterans, breast implants, artificial hips, motion studies, and more. Index. 359p. Measures 6x9 inches.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Clean and pristine, with no markings and no signs of prior use. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; 9.0 X 5.9 X 0.9 inches; 366 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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8vo. viii, [4], 242 pp. Plates, figs., index. Quarter brick-red cloth, beige boards; occasional neat, professional marginalia. Very good. ISBN: 0674299108 "Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor, daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow, and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection. Now Katherine Ott chronicles how in one century a romantic, ambiguous affliction of the spirit was transformed into a disease that threatened public health and civic order. She persuasively argues that there was no constant identity to the disease over time, no "core" tuberculosis. / What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late nineteenth century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculosis" and "consumption" were diagnosed, defined, and treated distinctively by both lay and professional health workers. Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality, and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients. / Ott's focus is the changing definition of the disease in different historical eras and environments. She explores its external trappings, from the symptoms doctors chose to notice (whether a pale complexion or a tubercle in a dish) to the significance of the economic and social circumstances of the patient. Emphasizing the material culture of diseaseâ"medical supplies, advertisements for faraway rest cures, outdoor sick porches, and invalid hammocksâ"Ott provides insight into people's understanding of illness and how to combat it. Fevered Lives underscores the shifting meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history." â" HUP.

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Condizione: acceptable. The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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(VIII, 1) 242 p. Bound in the publisher's half orange cloth with pictorial dustjacket (Fine copy.).

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. First Edition. Review copy: book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with its presentation bookplate and minor library marks, being presented by the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund. Physical description; viii, 242 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references (p. 169-232) and index. Summary; Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlour, daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow, and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection. Now Katherine Ott chronicles how in one century a romantic, ambiguous affliction of the spirit was transformed into a disease that threatened public health and civic order. She argues that there was no constant identity to the disease over time, no "core" tuberculosis. What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late-19th century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculosis" and "consumption" were diagnozed, defined and treated distinctively by both lay and professional health workers. Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients. Ott's focus is the changing definition of the disease in different historical eras and environments. She explores its eternal trappings, from the symptoms doctors chose to notice (whether a pale complexion or a tubercle in a dish) to the significance of the economic and social circumstances of the patient. Emphasizing the material culture of disease - medical supplies, advertisements for faraway rest cures, outdoor sick porches, and invalid hammocks - Ott privides insight into people's understanding of illness and how to combat it. "Fevered Lives" underscores the shifting meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in this cultural history. Subjects; Medicine History 19th century. Medicine History 20th century. Tuberculosis history. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary history. Tuberculosis United States History. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary history United States. History of Medicine, 19th Cent. United States. History of Medicine, 20th Cent. United States. Tuberculosis Social aspects United States History. Tuberculosis history United States. Tuberculosis United States History 19th century. Tuberculosis United States History 20th century. United States. American history ; World history: (c 1750 to c 1900) ; Infectious & contagious diseases ; Respiratory medicine ; Cultural studies. World history: from (c 1900 -). USA ; (c 1800 to c 1900) ; 20th century. Medical / History. Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine. Medical / Infectious Diseases. History / General. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.