1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464152903321

Autore

Pemberton Stephen Gregory

Titolo

The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / / Stephen Pemberton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-4214-0442-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Disciplina

616.1/572

Soggetti

Hemophilia - Complications

Hemophilia - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : hemophilia as pathology of progress -- The emergence of the hemophilia concept -- The scientist, the bleeder, and the laboratory -- Vital factors in the making of a masculine world -- Normality within limits -- The hemophiliac's passport to freedom -- Autonomy and other imperatives of the health consumer -- The mismanagement of hemophilia and AIDS -- Conclusion : the governance of clinical progress in a global age.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794235603321

Autore

Ito John Paul

Titolo

Focal impulse theory : musical expression, meter, and the body / / John Paul Ito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-253-04995-4

0-253-04994-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 376 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Musical Meaning and Interpretation

Disciplina

781.222

Soggetti

Musical meter and rhythm

Music - Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)

Music - Performance - Physiological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Index.

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9. Anticipations and Secondary Focal Impulses -- 10. Inflecting Focal Impulses Downward and Upward -- 11. More Advanced Uses of Inflected Impulse Cycles -- 12. Performing Metrical Dissonance -- Part 4. Connecting Focal Impulse Theory -- 13. Connections with Psychology -- 14. Connections with Other Music Scholarship -- Part 5. Applying Focal Impulse Theory -- 15. Metrical Dissonance in Brahms -- 16. The First Movements of the Brahms Sonatas op. 120 -- Conclusions: Placing Focal Impulse Theory in Larger Contexts -- Glossary: Focal Impulse Symbols and Their Definitions -- References -- Discography

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Accessing Audiovisual Materials -- Preface -- Copyright Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Introducing the Focal Impulse and Its Theory -- 2. Foundations in Music Theory and Cognitive Science -- Part 2. Basic Focal Impulse Theory -- 3. The Basic Concept of the Focal Impulse -- 4. Focal Impulses and Meter: The Simplest Cases -- 5. The Sound of Focal Impulses -- 6. More on Focal Impulses and Meter -- 7. Focal Impulses and Characters of Syncopation -- Part 3. Expanding Focal



Impulse Theory -- 8. Special Cases of Focal Impulse Placement

Sommario/riassunto

As Focal Impulse Theory deftly illustrates, bodily movements carry musical meaning and, in a very real sense, are meaning.