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Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France The Humanity of Hearing
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- Summary
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This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all ...
This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting.
Details
- Creator
- by I. Sykes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed. 2015
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (X, 169 p. 8 illus.)
- ISBNs
- 9781349498130, 1349498130, 9781137455352, 1137455357, 133619085X, 1137455349
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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