1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996217309103316

Autore

Horn David G.

Titolo

Social Bodies : Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity / / David G. Horn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1994]

©1995

ISBN

1-282-75204-9

9786612752049

1-4008-2145-2

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

Classificazione

LB 40255

Disciplina

304.6/32

Soggetti

Fascism and culture - Italy

Fascism and women - Italy

Fertility, Human - Government policy - Italy

Human body - Social aspects - Italy

Human body - Symbolic aspects - Italy

Human reproductive technology - Italy - History - 20th century

Italy - Politics and government - 1914-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER I. Technologies of Reproduction -- CHAPTER II. Social Bodies -- CHAPTER III. The Power of Numbers -- CHAPTER IV. Governing Reproduction -- CHAPTER V. The Sterile City -- CHAPTER VI. Beyond Public and Private -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "vitality" of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological intervention and political contestation. Social Bodies looks at how population and reproductive bodies came to be the objects of new sciences, technologies, and government policies during this period. It examines the linked scientific constructions of Italian society as a body threatened by the "disease" of



infertility, and of women and men as social bodies--located neither in nature nor in the private sphere, but in that modern domain of knowledge and intervention carved out by statistics, sociology, social hygiene, and social work. Situated at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, and feminist studies of science, the book explores the interrelated factors that produced the practices of reason we call social science and social planning. David Horn draws on many sources to analyze the discourses and practices of "social experts," the resistance these encountered, and the often unintended effects of the new objectification of bodies and populations. He shows how science, while affirming that maternity was part of woman's "nature," also worked to remove reproduction from the domain of the natural, making it an object of technological intervention. This reconstitution of bodies through the sciences and technologies of the social, Horn argues, continues to have material consequences for women and men throughout the West.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557117703321

Autore

Hjertager Bjørn

Titolo

Engineering Fluid Dynamics 2019-2020 : Volume 2

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains the successful submissions to a Special Issue of Energies entitled "Engineering Fluid Dynamics 2019-2020". The topic of engineering fluid dynamics includes both experimental and computational studies. Of special interest were submissions from the fields of mechanical, chemical, marine, safety, and energy engineering.



We welcomed original research articles and review articles. After one-and-a-half years, 59 papers were submitted and 31 were accepted for publication. The average processing time was about 41 days. The authors had the following geographical distribution: China (15); Korea (7); Japan (3); Norway (2); Sweden (2); Vietnam (2); Australia (1); Denmark (1); Germany (1); Mexico (1); Poland (1); Saudi Arabia (1); USA (1); Serbia (1). Papers covered a wide range of topics including analysis of free-surface waves, bridge girders, gear boxes, hills, radiation heat transfer, spillways, turbulent flames, pipe flow, open channels, jets, combustion chambers, welding, sprinkler, slug flow, turbines, thermoelectric power generation, airfoils, bed formation, fires in tunnels, shell-and-tube heat exchangers, and pumps.