1st Edition
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing
Chapter 1: Sound and Rhetoric in Health and Healing: A Conflux of Rhetoric and Sound
Chapter 2: A Sonic Lineage of Percussion and Auscultation from Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Greek, and Roman Medicine
Chapter 3: Integrating Rhetoric with the Sonic and the Body: Intentional and Unintentional Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Uses of Sound in Contemporary Western Biomedical Health Systems
Chapter 4: Unintentional Sound and Earwitnessing in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 5: Behaving as Responsible Researchers in Sonic Health, Healing, and Hospital Spaces
Biography
Kristin Marie Bivens is a scholar of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and the head of education in the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She also heads the patient and public involvement program in clinical research.
