LEADER 03960 am 22005773u 450 001 9910337465603321 005 20230125225337.0 010 $a1-137-59829-8 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-59829-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000006675041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-59829-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5528437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5528437 035 $a(OCoLC)1108565032 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37108 035 $a(PPN)230542840 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006675041 100 $a20180926d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSonic Skills$b[electronic resource] $eListening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present) /$fby Karin Bijsterveld 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 $aLondon$cSpringer Nature$d2019 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 174 p.) 311 $a1-137-59831-X 327 $aAcknowledgements -- 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. 330 $aIt 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. 606 $aAcoustical engineering 606 $aTechnology?History 606 $aEngineering Acoustics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T16000 606 $aHistory of Technology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T29000 610 $aEngineering 610 $aAcoustical engineering 610 $aTechnology?History 615 0$aAcoustical engineering. 615 0$aTechnology?History. 615 14$aEngineering Acoustics. 615 24$aHistory of Technology. 676 $a620.2 700 $aBijsterveld$b Karin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0860578 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337465603321 996 $aSonic Skills$91920136 997 $aUNINA