Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction Anna Toropova and Claire Shaw
Part 1 Knowledges
1 'Rest for the brain' or 'technology of the unconscious?': Hypnosis in early Soviet medicine and culture Anna Toropova, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2 From psychosis to psychopathy: Psychiatry and crime in communist Czechoslovakia (1948-70) Jakub Strelec, Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic
3 Broadcasting communist morality: Sex education in Soviet Latvia Siobhán Hearne, University of Manchester, UK
4 Health and heroism: Shifting patterns in late socialist Central Europe Jan Arend, University of Tübingen, Germany
Part 2 Practices
5 Work and therapy: Two visions of the Bulgarian New Man Julian Chehirian, Princeton University, USA
6 'Human capabilities are limitless': Will and self-improvement in postwar Soviet psychotherapy Aleksandra Brokman
7 Soviet pioneers in smoking cessation: From group therapy in the 1920s to Cytisine in the 1970s Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas, USA
Part 3 Artefacts
8 Illuminating microbes: Preventing infectious diseases with bactericidal lamps in Soviet medicine, 1917-53 Johanna Conterio, University of Oslo, Norway
9 Embodied technologies: Lilya Brik's The Glass Eye (1929) and Esfir Shub's Today (1930) Lilya Kaganovsky, UCLA, USA
10 Arm race: The Cold War story of a bionic arm Frances Bernstein, Drew University, USA
11 Dreams of a synaesthetic future: Technologies of deafness in late Soviet socialism Claire Shaw, University of Warwick, UK
Index