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The body electric: how strange machines built the modern American
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña
Year: c2003.
Publisher:  New York University Press. 
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Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Machine-Built Body
[Intro]
Premachine Fitness: The Acrobatic Athlete
The Body as Machine: A Metaphor of Power
Empty Buckets: Neurasthenia and Physical Breakdown
Chiosso and Windship: Building Machines for Modern Energy
David P. Butler: When Only Cannon Balls Will Do
Chapter 2: Measuring Mechanical Strength
[Intro]
Turning to Machines: Sargent's Early Life
Harvard and the Hemenway: Building a System of Machine Energy
Measuring Mechanized Progress: Sargent's Anthropometric System
Gustav Zander and Spas: Trotting Toward Modern Energy
Zander Case Studies: Mechanizing the Business Body
Nature's Energy under Man's Control: Zanders in the Spa Context
The Mental Benefits of Zander Therapy
Chapter 3: Exploring Electric Limits
[Intro]
Building the Body Electric
Mesmerism, Popular Culture, and the Electric Hand
Fantastic Spaces, Neurasthenic Bodies, and the Rise of Electric Theology
George Beard: Disproving the Electric Evil
From Prizes to Products: The Popular World of Electric Cures
Electric Belts, Ozone, and the Cultural Cure
Electric Belts and Industrial Supremacy
The Electropoise, Violet Rays, and the Beautiful Death of Decay
Henry Gaylord Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO: "Plugging in" to the Modern Era
Chapter 4: Powering the Intimate Body
[Intro]
The Seed of Modernity: Why the Penis Must Be Powered
Holding Back the Vital Force: Nineteenth-Century Impotence and Masturbation
Electrifying the Penis: A Modern Cure for a Victorian Malaise
Electric Belts and the End of Masturbatory Decline
Defining the Problem and Prescribing the Cure: American Electric Belts
Electric Bodies, Superior Glands, and Modern Sex Roles
Beyond Normal: Electric Glands and the Quest for Supervirility
Chapter 5: "Radiomania" Limits the Energy Dream
[Intro]
William Hammer and the "American Radium Discovery," 1902-1907
The Rise of "Radiomania": Radium and American Popular Culture, 1900-1915
The Parable of Liquid Sunshine: Shedding Light on a Radium Body
Up Close and Personal: The Radium Fantasy Takes Hold, 1905-1915
In Pursuit of "Liquid Sunshine": Radium Waters Away and at Home, 1915-1925
Realizing Radium's Superman Dreams: The Radithor Controversy, 1925-1932
Epilogue: Radium Triumph or Radium Terror?
Conclusion: The End of an Era?
Additional Resources: Historical Pamphlets and Advertisements
1: Pall Mall Electric Co.: Electricity and Electro Magnetism ("The Doctor's Story")
2: Electrolibration Co.: The Electropoise
3: Halliwell-Shelton Electric Corporation: High Frequency Violet Ray
4: The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.: Harness Electropathic Belt
5: Vit-O-Net Corp.: Vit-O-Net
Notes
Notes to the Preface
Notes to the Introduction
Notes to Chapter 1
Notes to Chapter 2
Notes to Chapter 3
Notes to Chapter 4
Notes to Chapter 5
Notes to the Conclusion
Bibliography
Manuscript Collections
Interviews
Newspapers
Trade Magazines
Contemporary Sources
Articles, Catalogues, Pamphlets, Reports
Books
Secondary Sources
Articles and Reports
Books
Index
About the Author
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Title: The body electric : how strange machines built the modern American Carolyn Thomas de la Peña.
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New York: New York University Press, c2003.
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Subject Headings: • Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 19th 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
• Quacks and quackery -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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