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The body electric: how strange machines built the modern American
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña-
Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Preface
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 The Machine-Built Body
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[Intro]
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Premachine Fitness: The Acrobatic Athlete
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The Body as Machine: A Metaphor of Power
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Empty Buckets: Neurasthenia and Physical Breakdown
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Chiosso and Windship: Building Machines for Modern Energy
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David P. Butler: When Only Cannon Balls Will Do
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Chapter 2 Measuring Mechanical Strength
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[Intro]
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Turning to Machines: Sargent's Early Life
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Harvard and the Hemenway: Building a System of Machine Energy
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Measuring Mechanized Progress: Sargent's Anthropometric System
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Gustav Zander and Spas: Trotting Toward Modern Energy
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Zander Case Studies: Mechanizing the Business Body
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Nature's Energy under Man's Control: Zanders in the Spa Context
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The Mental Benefits of Zander Therapy
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Chapter 3 Exploring Electric Limits
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[Intro]
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Building the Body Electric
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Mesmerism, Popular Culture, and the Electric Hand
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Fantastic Spaces, Neurasthenic Bodies, and the Rise of Electric Theology
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George Beard: Disproving the Electric Evil
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From Prizes to Products: The Popular World of Electric Cures
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Electric Belts, Ozone, and the Cultural Cure
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Electric Belts and Industrial Supremacy
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The Electropoise, Violet Rays, and the Beautiful Death of Decay
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Henry Gaylord Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO: "Plugging in" to the Modern Era
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Chapter 4 Powering the Intimate Body
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[Intro]
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The Seed of Modernity: Why the Penis Must Be Powered
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Holding Back the Vital Force: Nineteenth-Century Impotence and Masturbation
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Electrifying the Penis: A Modern Cure for a Victorian Malaise
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Electric Belts and the End of Masturbatory Decline
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Defining the Problem and Prescribing the Cure: American Electric Belts
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Electric Bodies, Superior Glands, and Modern Sex Roles
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Beyond Normal: Electric Glands and the Quest for Supervirility
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Chapter 5 "Radiomania" Limits the Energy Dream
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[Intro]
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William Hammer and the "American Radium Discovery," 1902-1907
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The Rise of "Radiomania": Radium and American Popular Culture, 1900-1915
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The Parable of Liquid Sunshine: Shedding Light on a Radium Body
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Up Close and Personal: The Radium Fantasy Takes Hold, 1905-1915
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In Pursuit of "Liquid Sunshine": Radium Waters Away and at Home, 1915-1925
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Realizing Radium's Superman Dreams: The Radithor Controversy, 1925-1932
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Epilogue: Radium Triumph or Radium Terror?
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Conclusion The End of an Era?
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Additional Resources Historical Pamphlets and Advertisements
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1 Pall Mall Electric Co.: Electricity and Electro Magnetism ("The Doctor's Story")
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2 Electrolibration Co.: The Electropoise
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3 Halliwell-Shelton Electric Corporation: High Frequency Violet Ray
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4 The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.: Harness Electropathic Belt
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5 Vit-O-Net Corp.: Vit-O-Net
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Notes
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Notes to the Preface
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Notes to the Introduction
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Notes to Chapter 1
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Notes to Chapter 2
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Notes to Chapter 3
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Notes to Chapter 4
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Notes to Chapter 5
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Notes to the Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Manuscript Collections
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Interviews
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Newspapers
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Trade Magazines
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Contemporary Sources
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Articles, Catalogues, Pamphlets, Reports
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Books
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Secondary Sources
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Articles and Reports
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Books
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Index
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About the Author
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 109.2 (April 2004) | http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/109.2/br_74.html |
TC | 45.3 (2004): 653-654 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v045/45.3maines.html |
BHM | 79.3 (2005): 601-602 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v079/79.3sappol.html |
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