VIRUS Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin Band 19 Schwerpunkt: Objekte als Quellen der Medizingeschichte
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VIRUS Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin Band 19 Schwerpunkt: Objekte als Quellen der Medizingeschichte
Henrik Eßler
S. 155 - 180 doi:10.1553/virus19s155 doi:10.1553/virus19s155
Abstract: Electrotherapeutic devices can be found in numerous medical and technical history collectionsand are still offered almost every month by private donors. These objects, which developedinto a social fashion article in the 1920s, open the view to a specific cultural-historical context.Against the background of a “crisis in medicine”, alternative healing methods and technologiesof self-treatment had experienced an increasing demand during the Weimar Republic. Thesemedical machines can be described as profoundly ambivalent objects: promising self-empowermenton the one hand, incorporating the actually criticised “mechanization of medical treatment”on the other hand. Being symbols of the electrified urban society, the devices also becamelifestyle accessories of a bourgeois entertainment culture. This article is devoted to the contradictoryrole of electrical healing devices as part of a specific material culture and particularlydeals with different practices of appropriation. Keywords: Electro Therapy, Material Culture, Consumer Culture, Self Medication, Lebensreform, Weimar Republic, 20th Century, Quack Medicine, Violet Ray, Stimulation Current, Popular Science, Popularisation, Entertainment Culture Published Online: 2021/06/10 09:04:57 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x003c8e94 Rights:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3420, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400 https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at, e-mail: verlag@oeaw.ac.at |