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Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music As Cause of Disease (The History of Medicine in Context)
Bad Vibrations The History of the Idea of Music As Cause of Disease - The History of Medicine in Context
Author: James Kennaway
Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's Iyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781409426424
ISBN-10: 1409426424
Publication Date: 7/28/2012
Pages: 195
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Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Book Type: Hardcover
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