‘Get the Best Article in the Market’: Prostheses for Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Commerce

Authors

RC Sweet

Abstract

This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-alignment of medicine, industrial capitalism, and social norms shaped diverse lived experiences of ...

DOI

10.7228/manchester/9781526101426.003.0006

Publication Date

2017-04-26

Publication Title

Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939

Publisher

Manchester University Press

ISBN

9781526101426

Keywords

Medical

First Page

114

Last Page

136

Recommended Citation

Sweet, R. (2017) '‘Get the Best Article in the Market’: Prostheses for Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Commerce', Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939, , pp. 114-136. Manchester University Press: Available at: https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526101426.003.0006