New LibGuide on Diversity on Research and Resources offers insight into how diverse identities and experiences are cataloged in information management systems. The guide's section on Disability helps in developing search terms to better locate information about populations or identities that have been underrepresented and often oppressed by the systemic inequalities of scholarship and librarianship.
Brown, Elspeth (2002) ‘The Prosthetics of Management: Motion Study, Photography, and the Industrialized Body in World War 1 America’, in Ott, Katherine, Serlin, David, and Mihm, Stephen (eds.) Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics. New York: New York University Press, pp. 241–81.Google Scholar Full Text
Be creative, use synonyms, and think of related subject areas to explore this very interdisciplinary topic. History, engineering, medicine, mythology, psychology may all offer different perspectives and insights.
Some suggested search terms/keywords:
disability OR disabilities
communication disorders
speech pathology
speech disorders
speech therapy
applied linguistics
sociolinguistics
artificial limbs
protheses
wounds and injuries
orthopedics
amputation
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