Society, culture and the auditory imagination in modern France : the humanity of hearing /

This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in eighteenth and nineteenth-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. Contemporary scientists and anatomists had to come to terms with a new kind of transformative physiology within the mater...

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Main Author: Sykes, Ingrid
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Medicine, science and the auditory imagination -- The juge-auditeur and hearing the people -- Hearing and spaces of medical care -- The blind and the communication-object -- Sound, health and the auditory body-politic -- Conclusion. 
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