Technologies of mind and body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc 

 - London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney :  Bloomsbury Academic,  2023.  ©2024. 
 - 1 online resource (265 pages) 
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<br/><br/>Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction  Anna Toropova and Claire Shaw -- Part 1 Knowledges -- 1 'Rest for the brain' or 'technology of the unconscious?': Hypnosis in early Soviet medicine and culture  Anna Toropova -- 2 From psychosis to psychopathy: Psychiatry and crime in communist Czechoslovakia (1948-70)  Jakub St&#x159;elec -- 3 Broadcasting communist morality: Sex education in Soviet Latvia  Siobhán Hearne -- 4 Health and heroism: Shifting patterns in late socialist Central Europe  Jan Arend -- Part 2 Practices -- 5 Work and therapy: Two visions of the Bulgarian New Man  Julian Chehirian -- 6 '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 -- Part 3 Artefacts -- 8 Illuminating microbes: Preventing infectious diseases with bactericidal lamps in Soviet medicine, 1917-53  Johanna Conterio -- 9 Embodied technologies: Lilya Brik's  The Glass Eye  (1929) and Esfir Shub's  Today  (1930)  Lilya Kaganovsky -- 10 Arm race: The Cold War story of a bionic arm  Frances Bernstein -- 11 Dreams of a synaesthetic future: Technologies of deafness in late Soviet socialism  Claire Shaw -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781350271289 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medizin
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sowjetunion<br/>Ostblock<br/>Osteuropa
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Psychophysiology. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fernzugriff<br/>