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Baseball on the Brain
When they can’t attend games, how does a busy, middle-class family find time for baseball? If they were living in the 19th century and had…
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When they can’t attend games, how does a busy, middle-class family find time for baseball? If they were living in the 19th century and had…
Although the dangers of X-ray exposure were increasingly understood by clinicians and laypeople, a notable exception to this shift in attitude was shoe-stores’ use of the fluoroscope. From the 1920s through the 1950s these machines…
In the Long Shadow of the X-Ray The “light side” of X-rays—the faddishness and popular appeal—is only one side of the story. A major step forward in medical diagnostics and therapy, this new technology saved lives.…
Occult Entertainment The X-ray’s entertainment value extended far beyond novelty or morbid curiosity about the self. Turning appearances inside out, revealing the image of our death beneath our skin, subverted the visible, known world to…
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The Technology of Popular Entertainment The X-ray fast became the product that every modern physician should possess. When physicians did not have their own equipment, patients needing interior imaging or radiation treatment could visit X-ray “salons”;…