Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4022033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Coreen Mcguire, Coreen Anne Mcguire (0000-0002-3828-8578, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-116 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2024.a920517 |
| PMID | 38661795 |
| OpenAlex | W4392307314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article provides a new exploration of disabled innovation that transforms our understanding of collective contributions to the history of science and technology. It does so by showing how a user network galvanized individual inventions into disabled expertise by tracking the development of two technologies-the Selectascan/Possum and the adapted Loudspeaking Telephone. Hamraie and Fritsch's 2019 "Crip Technoscience Manifesto" defined "disabled expertise" by exploring how disabled technology modification has been devalued. This article takes up their manifesto's challenge to combine disability history with science and technology studies by analyzing the technologies discussed in Responaut , a British quarterly magazine published between 1963 and 1989. Responauts were people who depended on respirators to breathe. This technological interdependence meant that users adapted an extraordinary variety of technologies to live well with respirators and modify their personal environment
Disabled people · History of technology · Life style · Manifesto · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Technological determinism · Technoscience · Tracking (education) · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medicine and Dermatology Studies History · Photography and Visual Culture
Phenomenology of Illness
Crip Technoscience Manifesto
Preserving nature
From “She Would Say That, Wouldn't She?” to “Does She Take Sugar?” Epistemic Injustice and Disability
Sociological Theories of Disability, Gender, and Sexuality
Introduction
Working relations of technology production and use
The categorisation of hearing loss through telephony in inter-war Britain
Social Security Policy and the Early Disability Movement--Expertise, Disability, and the Government, 1965-77
Collecting women
Disability and political activism in industrialising Britain, c. 1830–1850
Scientific Discoveries and the End of Natural Philosophy
Reassessing Discovery
State of the Field
How Users Matter
Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice
From Innovation Community to Community Innovation
The modern way to loveliness
Tampon Technology in Britain
Objectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science
Relational Disability and Invisible Illness in Industrial Britain
Accessible America
Objects of safety and imprisonment
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |