Kategoria: CaseStudies
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Electricity, love and desire – Electric Valentine’s Day Part II
Our ELBOW researchers Stefan and Edna have been exploring the common ground of love and electricity, in the spirit of today’s Valentine’s Day. Inspired by the more or less surprising combination of love and electricity, we published yesterday the first part of two blogposts celebrating Saint Valentine. Whereas in his text, Stefan deals with metaphorical…
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Venus Electrificata – Electric Valentine’s Day Part I
Followed by our Halloween blogpost last Autumn, we are continuing on the path of electricity and holidays. This time, our ELBOW team has been exploring the common ground of love and electricity, in the spirit of Valentine’s Day. Our researchers Stefan and Edna have written their views on the subject, and this first published blogpost…
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Patients, medical electricity, and modesty – Guest Essay by Sigrid Autio
We are more than happy to share our first guest essay on our blog. ELBOW project’s researchers held a course at the University of Helsinki in autumn 2024. Sigrid Autio was one of the students who took part to the course, and whose course essay we are more than happy to publish on the ELBOW…
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Animal electricity and conspiracy theories – One case study
The series of introducing case studies – belonging to the material our ELBOW team is working with – continues with the fourth case study. This case study is introduced to you by no other than our project leader Soile Ylivuori. We believe that through giving you insight into the research process it is easier to…
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Medicine without medication – One case study
It is time for our third case study, we hope you have enjoyed them so far! If there is any feedback or comments you would like to share with us, please let us know through email or our contact form. The idea behind these case studies is that we would like to introduce to you…
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Electrified bodies without heads – One case study
As said last week, we would like to introduce to you the cases and materials our ELBOW research team is working with. Our first case study that we shared with you was about menstruation and a surgeon who treated the so-called ”obstructions” of menstruation using electricity. This case study belongs to materials our ELBOW researcher…
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Shocking early modern periods – One case study
As our ELBOW team is coming back from the summer holidays – which we enjoyed very much – it is time to turn our heads back to the past, medical electricity, and embodied experiences. We would like to introduce to you the cases and materials our ELBOW research team is working with. In our opinion,…
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