Author: Noah Knowles Davis
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Elements of Psychology
Author: Noah Knowles Davis
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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A Practical treatise on the medical & surgical uses of electricity
Author: George Miller Beard
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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The Body Electric
Author: Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081471983X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the public’s rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and “quack” physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as invigorating cures, veritable “fountains of youth” that would infuse the body with energy and push out disease and death. 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 Peña argues, can we fully understand our culture’s twentieth-century energy enthusiasm.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081471983X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the public’s rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and “quack” physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as invigorating cures, veritable “fountains of youth” that would infuse the body with energy and push out disease and death. 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 Peña argues, can we fully understand our culture’s twentieth-century energy enthusiasm.
A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity
Author: George Miller Beard
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Category : Electrophysiology
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Category : Electrophysiology
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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The Kabbala: Or, The True Science of Light
Author: Seth Pancoast
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Category : Cabala
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Category : Cabala
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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The Physiological anatomy and physiology of man
Author: Robert Bentley Todd
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Natural Theology and Modern Thought
Author: James Houghton Kennedy
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Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: American Medical Association
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Category : American Medical Association
Languages : en
Pages : 1886
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.
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Category : American Medical Association
Languages : en
Pages : 1886
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.
The Book of Touch
Author: Constance Classen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000323595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000323595
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.