UID:
edocfu_9960927904602883
Format:
1 online resource (408 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-262-36770-X
Series Statement:
The MIT Press
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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 -- 18 Sonic and Rhythmic Knowledge -- 19 Echoes and Envoi -- Appendix: Two Papers on Muscle Sound by Hermann von Helmholtz -- Experiments on Muscle Noise (1864) -- On Muscle Tone (1866) -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Appendix -- References -- Source and Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-04635-0
Language:
English
