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how strange machines built the modern American

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An edition of The body electric (2003)

The body electric

how strange machines built the modern American

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"The Body Electric is the first book to place changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether through wearing electric belts, drinking radium water, or lifting mechanized weights, many Americans came to believe that by embracing the nation's rapid march to industrialization, electrification, and "radiomania," their bodies would emerge fully powered. Only by uncovering this belief's passions and products, Thomas de la Pena argues, can we fully understand our culture's twentieth-century energy enthusiasm."--Jacket.

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New York University Press
Language
English
Pages
329

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Subjects

Electrotherapeutics, Medical instruments and apparatus, Quacks and quackery, History, Medicine, history, Electric Stimulation Therapy, Exercise Therapy, History of Medicine, 19th Cent, History of Medicine, 20th Cent, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, 44.01 history of medicine, Elektrostimulation, Radium, Bodybuilding, Trainingsgerät, Medizin, Medische techniek, Kwakzalverij, Elektrotherapie, Elektrostimulatie, Pseudowissenschaft, Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt, Kurpfuscherei

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United States

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20th century, 19th century
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Table of Contents

The machine-built body
Measuring mechanical strength
Exploring electric limits
Powering the intimate body
"Radiomania" limits the energy dream
Conclusion: the end of an era?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-319) and index

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New York
Series
American history and culture, American history and culture (New York University Press)

Classifications

Library of Congress
R730 .P39 2003, R730.P39 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 329 p. :
Number of pages
329

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OL18140771M
Internet Archive
bodyelectrichows00pena
ISBN 10
0814719538
LCCN
2002155358
OCLC/WorldCat
51216523
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523588
Goodreads
501932

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