History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing

A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge - systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric - as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Sound and Rhetoric in Health and Healing: A Conflux of Rhetoric and Sound
Chapter 2: A Sonic Lineage of Percussion and Auscultation from Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Greek, and Roman Medicine
Chapter 3: Integrating Rhetoric with the Sonic and the Body: Intentional and Unintentional Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Uses of Sound in Contemporary Western Biomedical Health Systems
Chapter 4: Unintentional Sound and Earwitnessing in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 5: Behaving as Responsible Researchers in Sonic Health, Healing, and Hospital Spaces

About the author

Kristin Marie Bivens is a scholar of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and the head of education in the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She also heads the patient and public involvement program in clinical research.

Summary

A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge – systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric – as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Marie Bivens
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032724379
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3272437-9
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference, Personal & public health, Humanities, Communication Studies, complementary medicine, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, Nursing and ancillary services, Nursing & ancillary services, Research methods: general, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies