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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
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Ithaca, NY 14853
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About Dr. Maines
Biography
I am a visiting scientist in the Cornell University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. My principal research interests are in the history of technology, especially issues relating to technology and the body, including sexuality, medicine, technological risk, and injury epidemiology.
Principal publications:
- Hedonizing Technologies: Pathways to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure (working title), Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2009.
- Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk, Rutgers University Press, 2005. For more about this book, click here.
- The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” Vibrators and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. For more about this book, click here.
- Published in Italian as Tecnologia dell’Orgasmo: Isteria, Vibratori e Soddisfazione Sessuale delle Donna (Venice: Marsilio, 2001)
- Published in part in Spanish in Debate Feminista (Mexico City: 2001).
- Forthcoming in French from Editions Payot, 2009.
- Film version: “Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm,” by Wabi Sabi Productions (Wendy Slick and Emiko Omori), premiered July 28, 2007 at Lincoln Center, New York City,.
Current Projects:
- Articles on sexuality and medicine in medieval Islam, and series of biographical articles on medieval translators of Islamic medical works into Latin and Hebrew, forthcoming in Medical Encyclopedia of Islam and Iran, Iran Academy of Medical Sciences, Teheran, 2008-2010 (in Persian and English).
- History of building and fire safety codes in industrial democracies.
- The Body Within: Textiles as Protection in War and Peace (working title), projected completion 2010 or 2011.