Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
- ISBN-10
- 0156032449
- ISBN-13
- 9780156032445
- Series
- Dark Light
- Category
- Electricity
- Pages
- 357
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Linda Simon
Description
The fascinating true tale of electricity's legacy in America charts the gradual progress of this new technology into the homes of Americans at the end of the nineteenth century while exposing the role of "electrotherapy" in American medicine during the same period. Reprint.
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