Stethoscope: The Making of a Medical Icon - Couverture rigide

Harris, Anna; Rice, Tom

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 178914633X ISBN 13 : 9781789146332

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2022

Synopsis

'Sparkling with ethnographic and historical insights, Stethoscope is a fresh and timely exegesis of this most familiar metonym of modern medicine.' - Jeremy A. Greene, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself, but how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar and 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 a number of purposes and is open to many interpretations. This is the key to the stethoscope's enduring presence in the medical and popular imagination.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Harris is an 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 (2021).

Tom Rice is Associate Professor 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 (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178914633X
• ISBN 13: 9781789146332
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible