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Sonic skills : listening for knowledge in science, medicine and engineering (1920s-present)
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing - with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. This open access book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what purposes have scientists, engineers, and physicians listened to the objects of their interest? How did they listen exactly? And why has listening often been contested as a legitimate form of access to scientific knowledge? This concise monograph combines historical and ethnographic evidence about the practices of listening on shop floors, in laboratories, field stations, hospitals, and conference halls, between the 1920s and today.
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Mechanical sound : technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
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