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Author Peņa, Carolyn Thomas de la.

Title The body electric [electronic resource] : how strange machines built the modern American / Carolyn Thomas de la Peņa.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
File Type Electronic text and image data.
System Details Mode of access: Intranet.
Note Description based on title screen of 2003-12-01.
Funding This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Note "This electronic book contains the following additional feature(s) not available in the print version: Historical pamphlets and advertisements (90 additional images)"--Copyright and Permissions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
Original Version 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 York University Press)) 0814719538 0520241207
Subject Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Electrotherapeutics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Electrotherapeutics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 081471966X (E-Book)
Standard No. 2027/heb90018 hdl

 
    
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