Article ID: CBB133003461

Music, Mechanism, and the “Sonic Turn” in Physical Diagnosis (2016)

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The sonic diagnostic techniques of percussion and mediate auscultation advocated by Leopold von Auenbrugger and R. T. H. Laennec developed within larger musical contexts of practice, notation, and epistemology. Earlier, François-Nicolas Marquet proposed a musical notation of pulse that connected felt pulsation with heard music. Though contemporary vitalists rejected Marquet's work, mechanists such as Albrecht von Haller included it into the larger discourse about the physiological manifestations of bodily fluids and fibers. Educated in that mechanistic physiology, Auenbrugger used musical vocabulary to present his work on thoracic percussion; Laennec's musical experience shaped his exploration of the new timbres involved in mediate auscultation.

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Authors & Contributors
Dubois, Charles
Boschung, Urs
Gon, Federico
Bottaccioli, Francesco
Verbeek, Theo
Stuber, Martin
Concepts
Medicine
Physiology
Senses and sensation; perception
Pathology
Music
Vitalism
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
21st century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
France
Europe
England
United States
Switzerland
Italy
Institutions
Université de Montpellier
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