ELBOW Blog

  • ISCH Conference 2024 in Potsdam – ELBOW Panel

    ELBOW project was involved in the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) Annual Conference in Potsdam, 4-6 September. Our researchers Edna Huotari and Stefan Schröder attended the conference and represented the ELBOW team successfully. ELBOW project had a panel in the conference with the title ”Medical electricity and embodied knowledge in the long eighteenth century”.

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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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  • To see, to feel, to know – our very first workshop!

    Our very first workshop To see, to feel, to know – Historical perspectives on embodied knowledge(s) was organised on 3 May 2024 at the University of Helsinki. We, the ELBOW team, were truly happy about the success of our first workshop. During the workshop, we heard and followed eight great presentations and one excellent keynote

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  • ELBOW at HEX Conference 2024

    Our project leader Soile gave a presentation about our ELBOW project at HEX Conference, organised 11–13 March 2024 at the University of Tampere (Finland). The theme of the conference this year was ”Memory, temporality, and experience”. Through representing our ELBOW-project, Soile explained how our project is studying the embodied experiences in the context of medical

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  • The Finnish Society for the History of Science and Learning (Suomen Oppihistoriallinen seura ry) organises an open event for introducing four research projects exploring the history of science and knowledge. One of these research projects is our ELBOW project, and our project leader Soile Ylivuori is giving a presentation of the project at the event.

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  • FELBOW Introduction: Raymond Sparks

    We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. In the previous blog posts, we have got to know the researchers in our project: project leader Soile Ylivuori, postdoc researcher Annika Raapke, university researcher Stefan Schröder, and doctoral researcher Edna Huotari. Also, we have learned something new of

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  • FELBOW Introduction: Lotta Vuorio

    We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. In the previous four blog posts, we have got to know the researchers in our project: project leader Soile Ylivuori, postdoc researcher Annika Raapke, university researcher Stefan Schröder, and doctoral researcher Edna Huotari. We have two team members left

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  • Hope and medical electricity – new publication!

    Our researcher Annika Raapke has written a blog post about medical electricity for Hoffnung handeln – L’espérance en action -blog. The blogpost is in German and its title is Ein Funke, kaum zu seh’n… Hoffnung und die Kräfte der medizinischen Elektrizität, 1740-1790. As translated in English, the title is Hope and the Forces of Medical

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  • FELBOW Introduction: MSS Edna Huotari

    We would like to introduce our Fellow ELBOW research members – or FELBOWs – to our blog readers. In the previous three blog posts, our project leader Soile Ylivuori, our researchers Annika Raapke and Stefan Schröder introduced themselves. We have one more researcher to be introduced, and she is our doctoral researcher, MSS Edna Huotari – who

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