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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sykes, Ingrid
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	France > Civilization. National characteristics, French. France > Social life and customs. Auditory perception. Listening > Social aspects > History. Listening > Political aspects > History. Listening > Psychological aspects > History. Physicians > France > Attitudes > History. Judges > France > Attitudes > History. Empathy. HISTORY / Europe / France. HISTORY / Study & Teaching. HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century. HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / History of Science.

Table of Contents:

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.