Electricidad, alienismo y modernidad: The Sanden Electric Company y el cuerpo nervioso en Santiago de Chile, 1900-1910

This articles focuses on electrotherapy in order to interrogate some of the features of Chilean modern medicine. It explores the exchange between urban modernity, medical ideals and the therapeutic market throughout the analysis of magnetic belts advertising -which were sold in Chile in the first de...

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Main Author: María José Correa Gómez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2014-06-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/66910