The Science of Walking - Mayer, Andreas
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"Do you know how you walk? Most people consider walking to be a natural and self-evident activity of everyday 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. The book analyzes the attempts to observe human (and animal) locomotion through the long nineteenth century and traces the effects of this new knowledge in other cultural domains, most notably literature and the visual arts"--…mehr

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"Do you know how you walk? Most people consider walking to be a natural and self-evident activity of everyday 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. The book analyzes the attempts to observe human (and animal) locomotion through the long nineteenth century and traces the effects of this new knowledge in other cultural domains, most notably literature and the visual arts"--
Autorenporträt
Andreas Mayer is CNRS Senior Researcher at the Centre Alexandre Koyré and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of several books, most recently Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Tilman Skowroneck is a senior lecturer of musical performance at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and cofounder of the translation firm Lark & Robin. Robin Blanton is cofounder of the translation firm Lark & Robin.