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

• Superior document: The MIT Press
• VerfasserIn: Pesic, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : The MIT Press,, [2022]
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The MIT Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 pages)

"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.

Table of 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 -- 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.