Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
Editat de Dr Claire Shaw, Dr Anna Toropovaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350271265
ISBN-10: 1350271268
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 30 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350271268
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 30 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Interdisciplinary scope sees engagement with current debates in cultural studies, anthropology, film studies, and science and technology studies
Notă biografică
Anna Toropova is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the author of Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre and the Politics of Affect under Stalin (2020). Her articles on Soviet cinema, biopolitics, medicine and spectatorship have been published in Slavic Review, The Russian Review, and JCH.Claire Shaw is Associate Professor in the History of Modern Russia at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 (2017). Her articles on deafness, disability and urban space have been published in Slavic Review, SEER, and Urban History.
Cuprins
List of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction Anna Toropova and Claire Shaw Part 1 Knowledges1 'Rest for the brain' or 'technology of the unconscious?': Hypnosis in early Soviet medicine and culture Anna Toropova, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.2 From psychosis to psychopathy: Psychiatry and crime in communist Czechoslovakia (1948-70) Jakub Strelec, Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic3 Broadcasting communist morality: Sex education in Soviet Latvia Siobhán Hearne, University of Manchester, UK4 Health and heroism: Shifting patterns in late socialist Central Europe Jan Arend, University of Tübingen, GermanyPart 2 Practices5 Work and therapy: Two visions of the Bulgarian New Man Julian Chehirian, Princeton University, USA6 'Human capabilities are limitless': Will and self-improvement in postwar Soviet psychotherapy Aleksandra Brokman 7 Soviet pioneers in smoking cessation: From group therapy in the 1920s to Cytisine in the 1970s Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas, USAPart 3 Artefacts8 Illuminating microbes: Preventing infectious diseases with bactericidal lamps in Soviet medicine, 1917-53 Johanna Conterio, University of Oslo, Norway9 Embodied technologies: Lilya Brik's The Glass Eye (1929) and Esfir Shub's Today (1930) Lilya Kaganovsky, UCLA, USA10 Arm race: The Cold War story of a bionic arm Frances Bernstein, Drew University, USA11 Dreams of a synaesthetic future: Technologies of deafness in late Soviet socialism Claire Shaw, University of Warwick, UK Index