Fitting for Health", special issue of *Technology and Culture* 54-3
Dear colleagues,
I have the great pleasure to announce the publication of
"Fitting for Health", special issue of *Technology and Culture* 54-3
The special issue, which was prompted as an investigation
of the economy of medical technology in
the early industrial age, is the result of intense collective work, which
included the editors of the journal, my co-authors - Claire Jones, Anna
Maerker, Liliane Pérez and François Zanetti
- and other colleagues - notably Samir Boumediene,
Jaipreet Virdi and Manuel Charpy - as participants of a workshop funded by the
Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine et the Académie nationale de
médecine in Paris (September 2010).
The introduction offers a critical review of the
economic, technological of medicine in early industrial Europe; individual
articles - on steel truss, medical electriciy, anatomical models and instrument
catalogues- provides numerous figures and documents, as well as substantial
bibliographic references.
I do hope that you and your students will enjoy as much
reading as we had to research and write "Fitting for Health".
With my best wishes for the new academic year,
Christelle Rabier
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*Wellcome Trust Fellow* - Department of Economic History
The London School of Economics and Political Science Maîtresse de conférences à
l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (en cours de nomination) -
"Histoire de la médicalisation européenne, 14e-19e siècles"
*Table of contents: Fitting for Health*
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*Introduction: The Crafting of Medicine in the Early
Industrial Age*,
Christelle Rabier pp. 437-459
*Articles*
*Self-Machinery?: Steel Trusses and the Management of
Ruptures in
Eighteenth-Century Europe, *
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Christelle Rabier, pp. 460-502
*Curing with Machines: Medical Electricity in
Eighteenth-Century Paris*
François Zanetti, pp. 503-530
*Anatomizing the Trade: Designing and Marketing
Anatomical Models as
Medical Technologies, ca. 1700-1900*
Anna Maerker, pp. 531-562
*Instruments of Medical Information: The Rise of the
Medical Trade
Catalog
in Britain, 1750-1914*
Claire L. Jones,
pp. 563-599