The body electric

Description:

"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 Pena argues, can we fully understand our culture's twentieth-century energy enthusiasm."--Jacket.

subjects: Electrotherapeutics,  Medical instruments and apparatus,  Quacks and quackery,  History,  Medicine, history,  Electric Stimulation Therapy,  Exercise Therapy,  History of Medicine, 19th Cent,  History of Medicine, 20th Cent,  History, 19th Century,  History, 20th Century,  44.01 history of medicine,  Elektrostimulation,  Radium,  Bodybuilding,  Trainingsgerät,  Medizin,  Medische techniek,  Kwakzalverij,  Elektrotherapie,  Elektrostimulatie,  Pseudowissenschaft,  Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt,  Kurpfuscherei

Places: United States

Times: 20th century,  19th century