The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology
Goody, Alex;Goody, Alex
Though modernism's emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has lon...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology
2022
Though modernism's emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognized, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology re-examines the machines and media that functioned as modernism's contexts and competitors. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach informed by the theoretical and socio-historical frames of current teaching and research on modernism and technology, this research volume makes a crucial and timely intervention in the field of modernist studies. The scholarly contributions on machines that govern transport, production, and public utilities, on media and communication technologies, on the intersections of technology with the human body, and on the technological systems of the early twentieth century capture the contemporary state of modernist technology studies and chart the future directions of this vibrant area.
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Literature and technology - Modernism (Literature) - Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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Revolutionary Experiments : The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction
Nikolai Krementsov;Nikolai Krementsov
Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life...
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Revolutionary Experiments : The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction
2014
Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death and live forever? These'big'questions of human nature and human destiny have boggled humanity's best minds for centuries. But they assumed a particular urgency and saliency in 1920s Russia, just as the country was emerging from nearly a decade of continuous warfare, political turmoil, persistent famine, and deadly epidemics, generating an enormous variety of fantastic social, scientific, and literary experiments that sought to answer these'perpetual'existential questions. This book investigates the interplay between actual (scientific) and fictional (literary) experiments that manipulated sex gonads in animals and humans, searched for'rays of life'froze and thawed butterflies and bats, kept alive severed dog heads, and produced various tissue extracts (hormones), all fostering a powerful image of'science that conquers death.'Revolutionary Experiments explores the intersection between social and scientific revolutions, documenting the rapid growth of science's funding, institutions, personnel, public resonance, and cultural authority in the aftermath of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. It examines why and how biomedical sciences came to occupy such a prominent place in the stories of numerous litterateurs and in the culture and society of post-revolutionary Russia more generally. Nikolai Krementsov argues that the collective, though not necessarily coordinated, efforts of scientists, their Bolshevik patrons, and their literary fans/critics effectively transformed specialized knowledge generated by experimental biomedical research into an influential cultural resource that facilitated the establishment of large specialized institutions, inspired numerous science-fiction stories, displaced religious beliefs, and gave the millennia-old dream of immortality new forms and new meanings in Bolshevik Russia.
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Biology in literature - Science fiction, Russian--20th century--History and criticism - Immortality in literature - Literature and science--Soviet Union - Biology--Soviet Union--Experiments - Medicine in literatureContent provider:
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A History of Organ Transplantation : Ancient Legends to Modern Practice
David Hamilton;David Hamilton
Foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl A History of Organ Transplantation is a ...
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A History of Organ Transplantation : Ancient Legends to Modern Practice
2012
Foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl A History of Organ Transplantation is a comprehensive and ambitious exploration of transplant surgery—which, surprisingly, is one of the longest continuous medical endeavors in history. Moreover, no other medical enterprise has had so many multiple interactions with other fields, including biology, ethics, law, government, and technology. Exploring the medical, scientific, and surgical events that led to modern transplant techniques, Hamilton argues that progress in successful transplantation required a unique combination of multiple methods, bold surgical empiricism, and major immunological insights in order for surgeons to develop an understanding of the body's most complex and mysterious mechanisms. Surgical progress was nonlinear, sometimes reverting and sometimes significantly advancing through luck, serendipity, or helpful accidents of nature. The first book of its kind, A History of Organ Transplantation examines the evolution of surgical tissue replacement from classical times to the medieval period to the present day. This well-executed volume will be useful to undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, surgeons, and the general public. Both Western and non-Western experiences as well as folk practices are included.
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Reproduction by Design : Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
Angus McLaren;Angus McLaren
Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechaniz...
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Reproduction by Design : Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
2012
Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the modern world. That debate continues today, and to understand the history of our anxieties about modernity, we can have no better guide than Angus McLaren. In Reproduction by Design, McLaren draws on novels, plays, science fiction, and films of the 1920s and'30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and sexologists, to reveal surprisingly early debates on many of the same questions that shape the conversation today: homosexuality, recreational sex, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, sex change operations, and in vitro fertilization. Here, McLaren brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.
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Futurism (Literary movement) - English literature--20th century--History and criticism - Technology in literature - Reproductive technology--England - Reproduction--Social aspects--EnglandContent provider:
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Becoming Glandular: Endocrinology, Mass Culture, and Experimental Lives in the Interwar Age.
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American Historical Review. Oct2013, Vol. 118 Issue 4, p1052-1076. 25p.
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Pettit, Michael
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American Historical Review. Oct2013, Vol. 118 Issue 4, p1052-1076. 25p.
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Becoming Glandular: Endocrinology, Mass Culture, and Experimental Lives in the Interwar Age.
American Historical Review. Oct2013, Vol. 118 Issue 4, p1052-1076. 25p.
The article focuses on the history of experimental medicine in Europe and the United States between 1918 and 1939. The author discusses the popularity of endocrinology at this time, explores why physicians believed that glands and hormones were interconnected with longevity, and analyzes the relationship between hormone sciences and eugenics. The role of doctors Harry Benjamin and John R. Brinkley and novelist Gertrude Atherton in the popularity of endocrine studies is also examined.
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BENJAMIN, Harry - ATHERTON, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 - EXPERIMENTAL medicine - ENDOCRINOLOGY - ENDOCRINE glands - HORMONE research - GENETICS of longevity - HISTORY of eugenics - TWENTIETH century - HISTORYContent provider:
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Ninth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Originally published in print: London : Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spot...
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Ninth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
2008; Vol. 03773
Originally published in print: London : Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's most excellent Majesty. For H.M.S.O. [H.M.S.O.], 1883-1884.
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"Gods We Were": Rejuvenation as Social Metaphor in Interwar Pulp Fiction in Europe and the United States.
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Interdisciplinary Humanities. Spring2013, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p101-112. 12p.
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Berliner, Brett A.
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Interdisciplinary Humanities. Spring2013, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p101-112. 12p.
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An essay is presented on the cultural and artistic context of the rejuvenation of fads...
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"Gods We Were": Rejuvenation as Social Metaphor in Interwar Pulp Fiction in Europe and the United States.
Interdisciplinary Humanities. Spring2013, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p101-112. 12p.
An essay is presented on the cultural and artistic context of the rejuvenation of fads in post-World War I Europe and the U.S. An extravagance of proud assertions and their ultimate vacuousness is explored. It highlights how rejuvenation has became a multivalent theme in different forms of literature to address the Great War's destruction of Victorian and Edwardian certainty. The practice of rejuvenation movement is discussed.
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The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV : 1893-1896
William Morris;Norman Kelvin;William Morris;Norman Kelvin
These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving corresp...
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The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV : 1893-1896
1996; Vol. Volume IV
These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Volumes III and IV, taken together, give in detail the comments and observations that articulate his problematic political and artistic stands and equally problematic position within the aesthetic movement as it developed in the 1890s. Most eloquently voiced also are the complexities of his troubled marriage and his devotion to his epileptic daughter, Jenny, and his other daughter, May. But dominating all these themes, organizing and structuring them, are the Kelmscott Press and the building of Morris's important library of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The letters record the way in which the Press becomes not only the center of Morris's aesthetic ambitions and achievements but also the site for his closest human relations and for much of his connecting with the makers of early modernism.The letters in Volumes III and IV are thoroughly annotated, and through texts and notes provide a new assessment of Morris's career. Included also, as appendices to Volume IV, are two important documents: the first, never before published, is F. S. Ellis's Valuation List of Morris's library, made after Morris's death, and the second, never before reprinted, is the text of what was to be Morris's final essay on socialism, published in April 1896.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Artists--Great Britain--Correspondence - Authors, English--19th century--Correspondence - Socialists--Great Britain--Correspondence - Textile designers--Great Britain--CorrespondenceContent provider:
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Regaining lost youth: the controversial and colorful beginnings of hormone replacement therapy in aging.
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Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences Feb2005, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p142-147, 6p, 5 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart
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Kahn, Arnold
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Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences Feb2005, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p142-147, 6p, 5 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart
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The quest for regaining lost youth seems to have existed since the beginning of record...
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Regaining lost youth: the controversial and colorful beginnings of hormone replacement therapy in aging.
Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences Feb2005, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p142-147, 6p, 5 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart
The quest for regaining lost youth seems to have existed since the beginning of recorded history and has taken many forms. One strategy that began in earnest in the latter part of the 19th century and continues to have enormous momentum today is based on the notion that by replacing internally secreted substances, that is, hormones, that decline with age, the vitality and physical attributes associated with youth can be regained. Although the approach remains highly controversial as, for example, in "anti-aging medicine," it is no more controversial than it was many years ago when the work of three high profile investigators, Charles Eduoard Brown-Séquard, Eugen Steinach, and Serge Voronoff set the basis for using this strategy. In the case of all three individuals, the therapies they developed received widespread attention (including ridicule) in the popular press, were spread rapidly by practitioners of questionable training and ethical motivation, and finally and relatively quickly disappeared from common use. However, and ultimately more importantly, in the process of developing and promoting their therapies, these individuals made important contributions to the origins of endocrinology, the biology of sex, and establishment of hormone replacement therapy. It remains to be seen whether contemporary efforts using hormone replacement therapy to blunt and reverse aging have the same fate as their predecessors and make comparable important contributions to biology and medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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HORMONE therapy for menopause - HORMONE therapy - ENDOCRINOLOGY - THERAPEUTICS - AGING prevention - INTERNAL medicineContent provider:
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Perspectives on human regeneration.
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Stark, James F.
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Regeneration is a concept that has fascinated humans for centuries. Whether we have be...
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Perspectives on human regeneration.
Palgrave Communications; 12/1/2018, Vol. 4 Issue 1, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p
Regeneration is a concept that has fascinated humans for centuries. Whether we have been trying to bring things back to life, extract additional resources from the world, or remodel our living spaces—domestic and urban—it is often presented as an unproblematic force for good. But what exactly does it mean to regenerate a body, mind or space? This paper, which introduces a collection of contributions on the theme of human regeneration, explores the limits and possibilities of regeneration as a conceptual tool for understanding the biological realm. What does it mean to be regenerated? How can a scholarly focus on this concept enrich our histories of bodies, ageing, disability and science, technology and medicine? As a secondary goal, I identify two distinct aspects of regeneration—'hard' and 'soft' regeneration—which concern the medical and social elements of regeneration respectively. By recognising that everything from cosmetics and fictions to prosthetics and organs grown in vitro display a combination of 'hard' and 'soft' elements, we are better placed to understand that the biological and social must be considered in consort for us to fully appreciate the meanings and practices that underpin multiple forms of human regeneration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
