Sounding bodies : music and the making of biomedical science / Peter Pesic
- Author
- Pesic, Peter
- Published
- Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2022]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Contents
- Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Musical Origins -- 1 Pythagorean Medicine -- 2 The Controversial Project -- 3 Musica humana -- 4 Homage to Herophilus -- 5 Kepler's Harmonic Physiology -- 6 The Musical Disease -- II Sonic Turns -- 7 Vibrating Fibers -- 8 Rhythms of the Heart -- 9 Songs of the Blood -- III Sounding Minds -- 10 Music, Melancholia, and Mania -- 11 Composing the Crisis -- 12 Catalepsy and Catharsis -- IV Sounding Bodies -- 13 Flying in the Dark -- 14 Ultrasounding Bodies -- 15 Tuning the Nerves -- 16 Telephonic Connections -- 17 Listening to Neurons
- Summary
- "Sounding Bodies presents the ancient Greek connections between music and medicine, their reception leading to the "sonic turn" in the eighteenth century, new kinds of sonic intervention in psychic disorders and new biological applications of sound"--
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- ISBN
- 026236770X (electronic bk.)
9780262367707 (electronic bk.)
9780262367714 (electronic bk.)
0262367718 (electronic bk.)
9780262046350
0262046350 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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