Introduction: Rethinking Design History through Disability, Rethinking Disability through DesignElizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USASection I: Designers and Users From Craft to IndustryIntroduction1. The Material Culture of Gout in Early America, Nicole Belolan (Rutgers University, USA)2. Walking Cane Style and Medicalized Mobility, Cara Kiernan Fallon (University of Pennsylvania, USA)3. Artificial Limbs on the Panama Canal, Caroline Lieffers (Yale University, USA)4. Technologies for the Deaf in British India, 1850–1950, Aparna Nair (University of Oklahoma, USA) Section II: Disability and World-Making in the Twentieth CenturyIntroduction5. The Ideologies of Designing for Disability, Elizabeth Guffey (Purdue University, USA)6. Architecture, Science, and Disabled Citizenship, Wanda Katja Liebermann (Florida Atlantic University, USA)7. Disability and Modern Chemical Sensitivities, Debra Riley Parr (Columbia College Chicago, USA)8. Design for Deaf Education: An Early History of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Kristoffer Whitney (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)9. Designing the Japanese Walking Bag, Elizabeth Guffey (Purdue University, USA) Section III: Making Disability DigitalIntroduction10. The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomic Design, Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler (Purdue University, USA)11. Designing Emergency Access: Lifeline & LifeCall, Elizabeth Ellcessor (University of Virginia, USA)12. 3D Printed Prosthetics and the Uses of Design, Bess Williamson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA)13. Materializing User Identities and Digital Humanities, Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware, USA)

Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics