TY - GEN AU - Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la. ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - The body electric: how strange machines built the modern American PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Quacks and quackery KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Medical instruments and apparatus KW - 19t h century KW - 20t h century KW - Electrotherapeutics N1 - Description based on title screen of 2003-12-01; "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?; Electronic text and image data; 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 UR - htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90018 ER -