... for harm toward Indigenous people once his discovery was publicly known. This chapter tells the story of these strange entanglements among Aboriginal biological differences, twentieth-century physiology, US defense objectives, a remorseful bioprospector, and a physiological superpower that could lead...

... resonance hearing physiology acoustics anatomy of the ear ...

... acoustics physiology of audition construction acoustic illusions cocktail party effect ...

... From the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century resonance was considered to be the key mechanism governing the physiology of pitch perception. The epistemological hegemony of resonance was, however, never stable, especially during the early nineteenth century when in the wake...

... This chapter gives overviews of two scientifically objective approaches to sounds: acoustics and the physiology of audition. It provides encapsulations of key notions such as the propagation, refraction, and reverberation of sound waves, frequency and pressure amplitude, the structure...

...,” to consider the limitations and continuing relevance of these terms for sound studies. acoustic tableau soundscape breath voice audio-phonatory loop This chapter gives overviews of two scientifically objective approaches to sounds: acoustics and the physiology of audition. It provides...

... of sociology against medicine, psychiatry, and psychology; and advocates of therapy for addicts against those who would simply punish them. By casting the meaningful experience of drug effects exclusively in terms of symbolically mediated mental representations of brute physiological sensations, Lindesmith’s...

... This chapter reassesses the feminist and critical claims that, after Prozac, pills have come to play too prominent a part in the treatment of depression. The chapter looks in detail at the pharmacokinetic characteristics of antidepressants: how they are physiologically absorbed, distributed...

... This chapter examines the significance of a range of new actors associated with nineteenth-century developments in physiology and psychology—the reflex arc and instincts, for example—in reworking the conceptions of mind-body relations that had informed John Locke's account of the role played...

... of phantasy (and its relation to infancy and physiology). The centrality of the gut (particularly the stomach/belly) for the emergence of mind in Klein’s work is used to argue for the psychic nature of the organic interior. This chapter makes the case that feminist theory could be more directly engaged...

... epistemology in the context of Jean Fernel's distinction between practical anatomy and theoretical physiology. The chapter concludes with an evocative reading of Descartes's camera obscura experiment that associates the ox eyeball in the hand of the anatomist with a wax ball that features prominently...

... in replicating practices of marginalization and economic accumulation. The conversation, importantly, also develops and extends Aimé Césaire’s “science of the word” and thinks through how storytelling and our physiologies are enmeshed—which Wynter understands through her assertion of human being as praxis...

... of the world’s life-forms. Domestically, bgi deploys official minzu categories that reinforce the national model of Han majority versus non-Han minorities. A Tibetan-Han DNA study looks for the “athlete gene” that may provide insights for developing therapies for Han people who lack this physiological...

... this using the case of schmecka – the practice and the word. It draws on fieldwork done in the Austrian region of Vorarlberg, with people jointly schmecka a homely meal. While the flavor perception investigated in physiology is factual, schmecka entails a positive valuation. While the culturally informed...

... are canvassed via Melanie Klein’s theory of phantasy (and its relation to infancy and physiology). The centrality of the gut (particularly the stomach/belly) for the emergence of mind in Klein’s work is used to argue for the psychic nature of the organic interior. This chapter makes the case that feminist...

...Antidepressants This chapter reassesses the feminist and critical claims that, after Prozac, pills have come to play too prominent a part in the treatment of depression. The chapter looks in detail at the pharmacokinetic characteristics of antidepressants: how they are physiologically...