Author: Sir John FORBESPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Original cases ... illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest. Also commentaries on the same subjects selected and translated from Auenbrugger, Corvisart ... and others
Author: Sir John FORBESThe Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
Author: Of Stigmatology
Author: Peter SzendyPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 082327814X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by angry exclamation marks, or Scorsese's Jake LaMotta, bloodied by one violently edited fight after another, the products of punctuation—or as Peter Szendy asks us to think of it, punchuation? Of Stigmatology elaborates for the first time a general theory of punctuation. Beginning with punctuation marks in the common sense, Peter Szendy goes on to trace the effects of punctuation more broadly, arguing that looking and hearing are not passive acts of reception, but themselves punctuate the images and sounds they take in. Szendy reads an astonishing range of texts and traditions, from medical auscultation to literature (Chekhov, Sterne, Kafka), philosophy (Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan), and film (Raging Bull, The Trial, Fight Club). Repeatedly, what Szendy finds in these works is a punctuation that marks experience itself, that seeks (and ultimately fails) to bind the subject to itself. This is the stigmatology of the punctuation mark on the page that structures texts from ancient to digital, as well as the punchuation of experience, as though at the hands of a boxer.
The Audible Past
Author: Jonathan SternePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822384250
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right. Sterne studies the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as "sound" and "not sound." In The Audible Past, this history crisscrosses the liminal regions between bodies and machines, originals and copies, nature and culture, and life and death. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a historical labyrinth. Along the way, he encounters capitalists and inventors, musicians and philosophers, embalmers and grave robbers, doctors and patients, deaf children and their teachers, professionals and hobbyists, folklorists and tribal singers. The Audible Past tracks the connections between the history of sound and the defining features of modernity: from developments in medicine, physics, and philosophy to the tumultuous shifts of industrial capitalism, colonialism, urbanization, modern technology, and the rise of a new middle class. A provocative history of sound, The Audible Past challenges theoretical commonplaces such as the philosophical privilege of the speaking subject, the visual bias in theories of modernity, and static descriptions of nature. It will interest those in cultural studies, media and communication studies, the new musicology, and the history of technology.
Original Cases with Dissections and Observations Illustrating the Use of the Stethoscope and Percussion
Author: Sir John ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auscultation
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
The Life of Sir John Forbes
Author: Robin AgnewPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1904470157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This book tells the story of the life and achievements of Sir John Forbes - Royal Physician, Medical Journalist and first translator of Laennec, the remarkable French inventor of the stethoscope.
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
Author: The Medical Recorder
Author: Samuel ColhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Author: