The body electric [electronic resource] : how strange machines built the modern American / Carolyn Thomas de la Peña.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2003.Subject(s): - Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19t h century
- Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 20t h century
- Electrotherapeutics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Electrotherapeutics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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"This electronic book contains the following additional feature(s) n ot available in the print version: Historical pamphlets and advertiseme nts (90 additional images)"--Copyright and Permissions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The machine-built body -- Measuring mechanical strength -- Exploring electric limits -- Powering the intimate body -- "Radiomania" limits t he energy dream -- Conclusion: the end of an era?
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Transcribed from: The body electric : how strange machines built the modern American. New York : New York University Press, c2003. xvi, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. (American history and culture (New Y ork University Press)) 0814719538 0520241207
This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Fo undation.
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