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Magnetic Phenomena, Therapeutic Practice, and Public 'Experiments' in 19th Century Europe
Daniela Barberis
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Event Date: Saturday, April 03, 2004
Location: Slought Foundation
Mesmer Syposium Series
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Aaron Levy, Lenore Malen
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Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents "Animal Magnetism and After: A Symposium." This one-day event on Saturday April 3rd, 2004, from 1:30 pm-4:30 pm, will address the history of Mesmerism in l8th, l9th, and 20th-century literature, political and social philosophy, medicine, and dynamic psychotherapy.
Daniela S. Barberis is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Chicago for her thesis The First AnnŽe Sociologique and Neo-Kantian Philosophy in France. She was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in 2000-2002, where she developed the project "Biological Sociology on Trial: The Durkheimian Criticism of Biological Models for the Human Sciences." She has published on French physiological psychology, hypnotism, scientific anniversaries and the development of sociology in France."
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This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of The Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Daniela Barberis. "Magnetic Phenomena, Therapeutic Practice, and Public 'Experiments' in 19th Century Europe." Slought Foundation Online Content. [03 April 2004;
Accessed 4 July 2009]. <http://slought.org/content/11222/>.
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