Cover
Contents
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
2 From psychosis to psychopathy: Psychiatry and crime in communist Czechoslovakia (1948-70) Jakub StYelec
3 Broadcasting communist morality: Sex education in Soviet Latvia Siobhán Hearne
4 Health and heroism: Shifting patterns in late socialist Central Europe Jan Arend

Part 2 Practices
5 Work and therapy: Two visions of the Bulgarian New Man Julian Chehirian
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
Part 3 Artefacts
8 Illuminating microbes: Preventing infectious diseases with bactericidal lamps in Soviet medicine, 1917-53 Johanna Conterio
9 Embodied technologies: Lilya Brik's The Glass Eye (1929) and Esfir Shub's Today (1930) Lilya Kaganovsky

10 Arm race: The Cold War story of a bionic arm Frances Bernstein
11 Dreams of a synaesthetic future: Technologies of deafness in late Soviet socialism Claire Shaw
Index