Book Review
“Hearing and the hospital: sound, listening, knowledge and experience” reviewed by Nicole Matthews
Hearing and the hospital: sound, listening, knowledge and experience by Tom Rice (Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2013). Tom Rice’s book offers an anthropology of the soundscapes of the hospital and medical practices of listening, particularly those of the cardiothoractic ward. At its centre is a year’s fieldwork undertaken at St. Thomas’ Read more…