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The Science of Walking: Investigations into Locomotion in the Long XIXe CE
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN-13
- 9780226328355
- Book Title
- The Science of Walking
- ISBN
- 9780226328355
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Science of Walking : Investigations Into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 1in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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The Science of Walking recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific study of an activity that seems utterly trivial in its everyday performance and yet essential to our human nature: walking. Most people consider walking to be a natural and unremarkable activity of daily life, yet the mechanism of walking has long puzzled scientists and doctors. In The Science of Walking , Andreas Mayer provides a history of investigations of the human gait that emerged at the intersection of a variety of disciplines, including physiology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, anthropology, and psychiatry. A history that moves across national and disciplinary borders with ease, this book charts the rise of scientific endeavors to control and codify locomotion by analyzing their social, political, and aesthetic ramifications throughout the long nineteenth century.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022632835x
ISBN-13
9780226328355
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25038263584
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Science of Walking : Investigations Into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Qp310.W3m3813 2020
Reviews
The Science of Walking is all about how there is more to taking a stroll than meets the eye. Physiology, neurology, anthropology and psychiatry all feature in Andreas Mayer's fascinating account of an everyday activity., An engaging narrative that weaves together science and history. . . . The book strikes a good balance between detail (it has an extensive bibliography) and readability. . . . It's a good reminder of how science doesn't operate in a vacuum, but rather is influenced by and interacts with wider society., What could be more natural, more intuitive than walking? Yet as Mayer shows in this erudite and perceptive study, everyone from physiologists to physicists, drillmasters to dancemasters, novelists to physiognomists tried to plumb the secrets of human locomotion in the long nineteenth century. Deeply researched and beautifully illustrated, this book draws together philosophy, science, literature, and medicine into the fascinating story of a science that sought the essence of the human and the truths of character in how we put one foot in front of another., Mayer asks how the apparently mundane and commonplace activity of walking ever became the subject of a science. His fascinating and illuminating answers, presented in this superbly crafted book, reveal very much more. Mayer gives a compelling account of how experiment and observation interacted across a range of social and medical sciences through the nineteenth century. Along the way, he offers important commentary on the very status of the empirical sciences and the emergence of modern disciplines such as field anthropology and experimental physiology, and he illustrates his account with graphics and cleverly chosen case studies. The work will help change received stories of how modern life became the target and the challenge for the scientific gaze., An interesting and finely researched book. . . . Mayer has selected a number of central themes and researched them in depth, rather than dwelling on the sheer breadth of interests that historical research on walking might address. . . . This translation, extended by the author, is highly readable andextensively illustrated--itself a statement about the manner in which researchers hoped to pin down the fleeting realities of movement as objective knowledge. It makes available and attractive a large amount of research on a largely unknown literature in French and German. . . . The book is a fluent and authoritative study, opening new questions and new resources, certainly not just for a narrowly understood history of biomechanics or of inscription instruments, but for a history of the human sciences with all the breadth that implies., Mayer's compelling argument is that the recurring interplay between mechanical, semiotic, and poetic registers in the science of walking derives from the inherent complexity of the activity itself. Mayer's very well-crafted study avoids any temptation to wander off into an indeterminate ramble. Every twist and turn contributes to the argument, culminating in Gustav Meyrink's tale of 'centipede's dilemma,' in which a toad asks a centipede to think consciously about his own mechanism of walking, thus condemning it to total immobility. Mayer suggests that this problem of the reflexivity of the act of self-observation lies at the heart of the science of walking: the dream of mechanically recording gait recedes further with every technical advance., Highly readable and often entertaining, as the author's wit and sense of joy in his research are everywhere apparent. The book is also beautifully illustrated, the many images serving as further testament to the different ways in which human bodies have been captured in motion. . . . An innovative and provocative study, which opens clear pathways to further fields of inquiry., Mayer calls on a wide variety of primary sources, hitherto little studied and often unexpected. . . . The book also contains numerous illustrations that show the astonishing inventiveness of the techniques deployed to pierce the secret of human walking, from stroboscopic disks to experimental shoes to Marey's famous chronophotographs. These texts and images. . . . allow us to grasp the epistemic specificity of the field through its oddities., In recent years, historians of science have made fruitful use of an analytical perspective focused on the definition of natural phenomena as 'objects' of science. Andreas Mayer turns this process of objectification on its head. . . . His mastery of the disparate language, methods and theories surrounding his 'recalcitrant object' is evident on every page. The insights offered in this thoughtful and elegant study will challenge historians across a broad range of fields., This is an unusual book, a true history of science that draws heavily on literature and the arts to explicate the science. Given that during the 18th century, scientists were as much philosophers and writers as researchers, this approach seems appropriate. The clear and witty style makes the text enjoyable for its qualities as much as for what it says. . . . This interesting view of cross-disciplinary scientific development would not be out of place in any history of science collection. . . . Recommended., With the emergence of the human sciences in the late Enlightenment comes a new scientific interest in that most human of things, the upright gait, which Balzac famously called 'the physiognomy of the body.' For nearly a century and a half, from Rousseau and Wordsworth to Freud and Marcel Mauss, this subject would remain a preoccupation across many intellectual environments in at least three languages. Mayer, a guide singularly equipped to conduct an exploration of this complex terrain, leads us on a walking tour that is by turns march and ramble, hike and promenade. The result is a deft and original study, with implications spelled out for promising paths of inquiry well beyond its own beautifully executed itinerary., Mayer chronicles in illuminating detail the dead ends ingeniously followed by early kinesiology. . . [He] concludes 'this mundane activity has proven remarkably recalcitrant to being transformed into a scientific object.'
Original Language
German
Table of Content
Introduction: A Recalcitrant Object 1 Walkers, Wayfarers, Soldiers: Sketching a Practical Science of Locomotion 2 Observers of Locomotion: Theories of Walking in the French Science de l'homme 3 Mechanicians of the Human Walking Apparatus: The Beginnings of an Experimental Physiology of the Gait 4 The Rise of Graphical and Photographic Methods: Locomotion Studies and the Predicament of Representation Conclusion: The Centipede's Dilemma Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Walking, Modern / 19th Century, History, Europe / General, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology)
Lccn
2019-045111
Dewey Decimal
612/.044
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Science, Sports & Recreation, History
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