Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon - Hardcover

Harris, Anna; Rice, Tom

 
9781789146332: Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 178914633X ISBN 13: 9781789146332
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine.
 
This book explores the colorful past, present, and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself—how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar yet charismatic object? Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology, and sound studies, the book illustrates the variety of roles the stethoscope has played over time. It shows that the stethoscope is not, and has never been, a single entity. It is used to a variety of ends, serves several purposes, and is open to many interpretations. This variability is the key to the stethoscope’s enduring presence in the medical and popular imagination.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anna Harris is associate professor of the social study of medicine in the Department of Society Studies at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Her previous books include A Sensory Education. Tom Rice is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Exeter, specializing in sound and auditory culture. He is the author of Hearing and the Hospital: Sound, Listening, Knowledge and Experience.

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178914633X
ISBN 13 
9781789146332
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
191
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