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Sounding bodies : music and the making of biomedical science / Peter Pesic.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2022Description: 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262046350 (paperback)
  • 0262046350 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509
LOC classification:
  • Q 172.5 P474s 2022
Contents:
Introduction Part 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 Part II: Sonic Turns 7. Vibrating Fibers 8. Rhythms of the Heart 9. Songs of the Blood Part III. Sounding Minds 10. Music, Melancholia, and Mania 11. Composing the Crisis 12. Catalepsy and Catharsis Part IV: Sounding Bodies 13. Flying in the Dark 14. Ultrasounding Bodies 15. Tuning the Nerves 16. Telephonic Connections 17. Listening to Neurons 18. Sonic and Rhythmic Knowledge 19. Echoes and Envoi
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 172.5 P474s 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000193988

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
Part 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
Part II: Sonic Turns
7. Vibrating Fibers
8. Rhythms of the Heart
9. Songs of the Blood
Part III. Sounding Minds
10. Music, Melancholia, and Mania
11. Composing the Crisis
12. Catalepsy and Catharsis
Part IV: Sounding Bodies
13. Flying in the Dark
14. Ultrasounding Bodies
15. Tuning the Nerves
16. Telephonic Connections
17. Listening to Neurons
18. Sonic and Rhythmic Knowledge
19. Echoes and Envoi

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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