Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France [electronic resource] : The Humanity of Hearing /
Sykes, I.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
History.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
France-History.
Medicine-History.
History, Modern.
History of Science.
Social History.
Cultural History.
History of France.
History of Medicine.
Modern History.