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Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France

The Humanity of Hearing

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  1. Ingrid Sykes

    1. La Trobe University, Australia

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Ingrid Sykes
    Pages 1-14

  3. Medicine, Science and the Auditory Imagination

    • Ingrid Sykes
    Pages 15-37

  4. The Juge-Auditeur and Hearing the People

    • Ingrid Sykes
    Pages 38-49

  5. Hearing and Spaces of Medical Care

    • Ingrid Sykes
    Pages 50-70

  6. The Blind and the Communication-Object

    • Ingrid Sykes
    Pages 71-90

  7. Sound, Health and the Auditory Body-Politic

    • Ingrid Sykes
    Pages 91-110

  8. Conclusion

    • Ingrid Sykes
    Pages 111-121

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 122-169
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About this book

This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting.

Authors and Affiliations

  • La Trobe University, Australia

    Ingrid Sykes

About the author

Ingrid Sykes is a Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a past recipient of a UK Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship and has published a number of articles on the cultural and medical history of modern France in journals such as French History, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences and Medical History.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France

  • Book Subtitle: The Humanity of Hearing

  • Authors: Ingrid Sykes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455352

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Ingrid Sykes 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45534-5Published: 26 January 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49813-0Published: 01 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45535-2Published: 26 January 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 169

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Science, Social History, Cultural History, History of France, History of Medicine, Modern History

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