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Sonic skills : listening for knowledge in science, medicine and engineering (1920s-present)

Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961- author

2019

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Acoustical engineering History. / Sound History. / Listening History. / Knowledge, Theory of History. / Science Methodology History. / Medicine History.
• ISBN: 9781137598318

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TA365.B5 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE