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.
Taking a materialist-feminist perspective, the book rhetorically accounts for sound and suggests rhetoric enables bodily sounds as understandable, knowable, and treatable with power to help and discipline bodies in health, healing, and hospital contexts. From an expansive, pan-historiographic approach integrated with and influenced by fieldwork from neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Denmark and the United States, the author explores intentional and unintentional diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic uses of sound in contemporary Western biomedical health systems and promotes a new research concept and fieldwork practice, sound in all research.
The insightful, timely volume will interest students and researchers in the medical humanities, rhetoric and communication, health communication, sound studies, medical and allied health sciences, and research methods.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
ISBN: | 9781032724379 |
Publication date: | 24th October 2024 |
Author: | Kristin Marie Bivens |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Swiss National Science Foundation |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 160 pages |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication |
Genres: |
Communication studies Cultural studies Media studies Personal and public health / health education Medical sociology Research methods: general Linguistics Nursing and ancillary services Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies History |