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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.
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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.
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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