03960 am 22005773u 450 991033746560332120230125225337.01-137-59829-810.1057/978-1-137-59829-5(CKB)4100000006675041(DE-He213)978-1-137-59829-5(MiAaPQ)EBC5528437(Au-PeEL)EBL5528437(OCoLC)1108565032(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37108(PPN)230542840(EXLCZ)99410000000667504120180926d2019 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSonic Skills[electronic resource] Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present) /by Karin Bijsterveld1st ed. 2019.LondonSpringer Nature2019London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (IX, 174 p.)1-137-59831-X Acknowledgements -- 1. Listening for Knowledge: Introduction -- 2. Sonic Signs: Turning to, Talking about and Transcribing Sound -- 3. Modes of Listening: Why, How and to What? -- 4. Resounding Contestation: The Ambiguous Status of Sonic Skills -- 5. Popping Up: The Continual Return of Sound and Listening -- 6. Ensembles of Sonic Skills: Conclusions -- References.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. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But in the sciences overall, we think, seeing is believing. 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. It shows how scientists have used sonic skills—skills required for making, recording, storing, retrieving, and listening to sound—in ensembles: sets of instruments and techniques for particular situations of knowledge making. Yet rather than pleading for the emancipation of hearing at the expense of seeing, this essay investigates when, how, and under which conditions the ear has contributed to science dynamics, either in tandem with or without the eye. Karin Bijsterveld is historian and professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Acoustical engineeringTechnology—HistoryEngineering Acousticshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T16000History of Technologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T29000EngineeringAcoustical engineeringTechnology—HistoryAcoustical engineering.Technology—History.Engineering Acoustics.History of Technology.620.2Bijsterveld Karinauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut860578MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910337465603321Sonic Skills1920136UNINA