Sounding bodies : music and the making of biomedical science / Peter Pesic.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : The MIT press, c2022.
Descrizione fisica:
398 p. : ill., ritr. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. Pt. 1. 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. Pt. 2. Sonic turns: 7. Vibrating fibers 8. Rhythms of the heart 9. Songs of the blood Pt. 3. Sounding minds: 10. Music, melancholia and mania 11. Composing the crisis 12. Catalepsy and catharsis. Pt. 4. Sounding bodies: 13. Flying in the dark 14. Ultrasoundlng 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. Notes. References. Source and illustration credits. Acknowledgments. Index
