{"product_id":"sounding-bodies-isbn-9780262046350","title":"Sounding Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning in ancient Greece, Peter Pesic writes, music and sound significantly affected the development of the biomedical sciences. Physicians used rhythmical ratios to interpret the pulse, which inspired later efforts to record the pulse in musical notation. After 1700, biology and medicine took a “sonic turn,” viewing the body as a musical instrument, the rhythms and vibrations of which could guide therapeutic insight. In \u003ci\u003eSounding Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, Pesic traces the unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePesic explains that music and sound provided the life sciences important tools for hearing, understanding, and influencing the rhythms of life. As medicine sought to go beyond the visible manifestations of illness, sound offered ways to access the hidden interiority of body and mind. Sonic interventions addressed the search for a new typology of mental illness, and practitioners used musical instruments to induce hypnotic states meant to cure both psychic and physical ailments. The study of bat echolocation led to the manifold clinical applications of ultrasound; such sonic devices as telephones and tuning forks were used to explore the functioning of the nerves. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSounding Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e follows Pesic’s \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Making of Modern Science\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePolyphonic Minds\u003c\/i\u003e to complete a trilogy on the influence of music on the sciences. Enhanced digital editions of \u003ci\u003eSounding Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e offer playable music and sound examples.\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Musical Origins 13\u003cbr\u003e1 Pythagorean Medicine 15\u003cbr\u003e2 The Controversial Project 29\u003cbr\u003e3 \u003ci\u003eMusica Humana \u003c\/i\u003e37\u003cbr\u003e4 Homage to Herophilus 53\u003cbr\u003e5 Kepler's Harmonic Physiology 71\u003cbr\u003e6 The Musical Disease 89\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Sonic Turns 107\u003cbr\u003e7 Vibrating Fibers 109\u003cbr\u003e8 Rhythms of the Heart 133\u003cbr\u003e9 Songs of the Blood 151\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Sounding Minds 169\u003cbr\u003e10 Music, Melancholia, and Mania 171\u003cbr\u003e11 Composing the Crisis 189\u003cbr\u003e12 Catalepsy and Catharsis 205\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Sounding Bodies 217\u003cbr\u003e13 Flying in the Dark 219\u003cbr\u003e14 Ultrasounding Bodies 233\u003cbr\u003e15 Tuning the Nerves 247\u003cbr\u003e16 Telephonic Connections 269\u003cbr\u003e17 Listening to Neurons 279\u003cbr\u003e18 Sonic and Rhythmic Knowledge 299\u003cbr\u003e19 Echoes and Envoi 311\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Two Papers on Muscle Sound by Hermann von Helmholtz 325\u003cbr\u003eNotes 329\u003cbr\u003eReferences 361\u003cbr\u003eSource and Illustration Credits 387\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements 389\u003cbr\u003eIndex 391“Pesic’s fascinating history of music and the body from the ancient world to modern neuroscience takes us to harmonious heartbeats, jaunty pulses, and resounding neural firings. This book is a feast for the eyes and ears.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Based on a solid ground of scholarship, Pesic’s erudite and sweeping composition will delight lovers of music, medicine, and mathematics with the myriad and enduring ways that sound and the body have generated analogies for each other.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jacalyn Duffin, Jason A. Hannah Professor Emerita of the History of Medicine, Queen’s University\u003c\/b\u003ePeter Pesic, writer, pianist, and scholar, is Director of the Science Institute, Musician-in-Residence, and Tutor Emeritus at St. John’s College, Santa Fe. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLabyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeeing Double\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbel’s Proof\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSky in a Bottl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cu\u003ee\u003c\/u\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Making of Modern Science\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePolyphonic Minds\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303363301605,"sku":"NP9780262046350","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262046350.jpg?v=1767737004","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sounding-bodies-isbn-9780262046350","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}