Medical Historical Library

Picturing Disability Technology

Emma Brennan-Wydra

Our first 2018-19 Ferenc Gyorgyey fellow, Jaipreet Virdi, Ph.D., shares an aspect of her research on disability technology through photographs and postcards.

Read her post "Picturing Disability Technology."

 

 

 

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