The Body Electric Joanne R. Duffy for one's salary

for one's salary

all social scientists

or a lack of it

multi-method approaches for research into the complex forces affecting health

she explains the body's instinctual stress patterns during and after trauma

The Body Electric Joanne R. Duffy for one's salaryThe 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