Book ID: CBB000101160

Electric Bodies: Episodes in the History of Medical Electricity (2001)

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Bertucci, Paola (Editor)
Pancaldi, Giuliano (Editor)


Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 298 pp., illus., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Paola Bertucci; Giuliano Pancaldi: Introduction. Lissa Roberts: Heterogeneous purposes and the protocols of experiment, or how tracing the history of amber can shed light on medical electricity. Paola Bertucci: The electrical body of knowledge: Medical electricity and experimental philosophy in the mid-eighteenth century. Oliver Hochadel: My patient told me how to do it: The practice of medical electricity in the German Enlightenment. Peter Heering: Jean Paul Marat: Medical electricity between natural philosophy and revolutionary practice. James Delbourgo: Electrical humanitarianism in North America: Dr. T. Gale's Electricity, or ethereal fire, considered (1802) in historical context. Marco Bresadola: Early Galvanism as technique and medical practice. Raffaella Seligardi: What is electricity? Some chemical answers, 1770-1815. Iwan Rhys Morus: Batteries, bodies, and belts: Making careers in Victorian medical electricity. Cornelius Borck: Electrifying the brain in the 1920s: Electrical technology as a mediator in brain research. Roberta Passione: Electricity and life: Cerletti's electroshock and the acroagonine theory.


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Review Gooday, Graeme (2005) Review of "Electric Bodies: Episodes in the History of Medical Electricity". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 474). unapi

Review Toscano, Anna (2004) Review of "Electric Bodies: Episodes in the History of Medical Electricity". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (p. 774). unapi

Review Schneider, Martin (2003) Review of "Electric Bodies: Episodes in the History of Medical Electricity". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wexler, Anna
Leblanc, Richard
Bottaccioli, Francesco
Kendall Milar Thompson
Pareti, Germana
Wan, Vincent
Concepts
Neurosciences
Brain
Physiology
Experiments and experimentation
Medicine
Research
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
17th century
Early modern
Places
France
Europe
Poland
Italy
Germany
Austria
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Tulane University Medical Center
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