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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

