Stethoscapes: Sound and listening in the sensory economy of a London Hospital.
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Politics Psych Sociology and Int Studies
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Tom RICE (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Batchelor P
(2009)
Carlyle Angus (ed.) Autumn Leaves: Sound and the environment in artistic practice. Paris Double Entendre, 2007 ISBN 09548074-3-X
in Organised Sound
Hume, Victoria; Wainwright, Tim
(2008)
Transplant
Rice T
(2015)
"Beautiful Murmurs": Stethoscopic Listening and Acoustic Objectification
in The Senses and Society
Rice T
(2010)
Learning to listen: auscultation and the transmission of auditory knowledge
in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Rice T
(2015)
Keywords in Sound
Rice T
(2009)
An Anthropological Insound into Medical Listening
in Audiological Medicine
Rice T
(2010)
'The hallmark of a doctor': the stethoscope and the making of medical identity
in Journal of Material Culture
| Title | Sounding Bodies - museum display for Musuem of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge |
| Description | Section of an exhibition explaining the role of stethoscopic listening in medical practice. Also allowed participants to attempt to listen to heart murmurs themselves. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2009 |
| Impact | Over 70000 visitors |
| URL | http://maa.cam.ac.uk/assemblingbodies/ |
| Description | This grant allowed me to consolidate my PhD research (also ESRC funded) and to develop publications from that research. That research explored the use of listening and sonic skills by patients, nurses and doctors on a cardiothoracic ward at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It examined the manner in which patients' experiences of ward soundscapes affect their overall experience of hospitalisation, looked at the role of listening in nurses management of patients on wards, and investigated doctors' use of listening in diagnostic work, particularly in stethoscopic listening. |
| Exploitation Route | My published research is used widely and informs such fields as: hospital design, medical and nursing student training, academic practice in numerous fields (anthropology, sociology, history, geography, literature studies, science and technology studies, musicology) including undergraduate and postgraduate student education in these fields. My work has also informed the work of numerous sonic arts practitioners. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Description | My findings (consolidated and developed during the course of this ESRC award) have raised awareness of the ways in which sound environments affect those who are exposed to them. The findings have also underlined the importance of sonic knowledge and skill, particularly in the medical context. One aspect of the research has been to point to the difficulties involved in the transmission of sonic skills, while identifying creative solutions to some of these problems. At the same time my findings point to the symbolic as well as the practical significance of medical listening techniques (and particularly stethoscopic listening) in modern medical work, assessing the manner in which patients might be affected by particular types of medical listening practice. As well as informing research and teaching across a wide range of academic fields (specified above), my findings have been incorporated into museum displays and informed practice in sonic art. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2007 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural |
| Description | Anecdotal accounts of use in medical student training (from persons involved in the research who are quaified doctors) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Increased medical students and practitioner sensitivity to impacts of ward noise and medical equipment sounds on hospital patients. |
| Description | Research used as numerous undergraduate and postgraduate courses on sound studies and/or the anthropology of sound |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Increases awareness of the impact of sound on human behaviour and the wider environment. |
| Description | 'Broadcasting the Body: the private made public in a London Hospital', Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Subsequent invitation to apply for job |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | 'Broadcasting the body, the public made private in a London hospital', Music, Sound and Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space, University of Cambridge. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Conference (which I co-organised) led to the publication of a major edited volume in which I published a chapter. The publication of a major edited volume in which I published a chapter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/70/ |
| Description | 'Ear-led anthropology', Beyond Text? Image:Voice:Sound:Object Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology Conference, University of Manchester. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Talk at conference led to several subsequent publications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | 'Learning to listen: stethoscopes as instruments of invention in a London Hospital', Transmission of Knowledge Series, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Sparked questions and discussion afterwards. Also led to invitation to submit an article to the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute which was subsequently published. Journal special issue publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2010 |
| URL | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01609.x/abstract |
| Description | 'Noisy Hearts: Auto-auscultation and Sound in Illness Experience', Experiencing Mutuality and Diversity, European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Invited to submit article to journal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | 'Research in Sound', Between Ethno-methodology and Cyborg Sociology, Egensis (ESRC-Centre for Genomics in Society), University of Exeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards I think the activity helped to make sound and sound studies more central to the university's research agenda |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | 'Stethoscapes: Listening to the Body in a London Hospital', Anthropology Department, Stanford University. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Extended research network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | 'Stethoscapes: the ethnographic ear and listening to anthropological knowledge', ASA, ASAANZ and AAS Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talks sparked questions and discussion afterwards Invitation to apply for job |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | 06.05.2007 - 'Stethoscapes: a hospital acoustemology', Seminar on Sound, University of Oslo. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk was designed to carry out conceptual groundwork for a study in Norway Ideas carried forward into research planning phase. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Body as soundscape, sound as bodyscape |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sparked questions and discussion afterwards My work was brought into the syllabus for a Sound and Anthropology module run by Professor Don Brenneis |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Broadcasting the Body: Noise and Knowledge in a London Hospital. Noise-gerausch-bruit: medien und kultur unstructurieter laute. Friedrich-Alexande |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk was part of a conference which was itself preparation for compilation of an edited volume. Invitation to submit to edited volume. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Broadcasting the Body: the private made public in hospital soundscapes. Launch conference for Music, Sound and the Transformation of Public and Private Space. University of Oxford. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Drew awareness to book chapter among influential audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Listening to the Corporeal Voice - Studium Generale Reitveld Academie, Amsterdam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Several students expressed interest in incorporating the research into their own arts practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://voicecreatureoftransition.rietveldacademie.nl/ |
| Description | Music, Sound and Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a series of four two-hour lectures delivered to third year undergraduates from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge. This took place during the post doctoral research fellowship itself. Numerous inquires about sound studies and the possibilities for studying it at postgraduate level or working in that research area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | On auditory culture. Intermedia Research Group Seminar, University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talks sparked questions and discussion afterwards Contributed to research of postgraduate students at University of Cambridge leading to numerous citations in subsequent articles |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/22842 |
| Description | Presentation for 'L'orecchio e la cura: l'ospedale come ambiente ed esperienza sonora' or 'Ear and Care: the hospital as auditory environment and experience'). University of Turin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards, but several audience members were hospital practitioners or people with a direct role in shaping hospital policy and practice. People involved said they would use my work in informing their own research on hospitals and care centres. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2013 |
| Description | Stethoscapes : 'ear-led' anthropology in a London hospital. Performance, Senses, Emotions seminar series. Queens University Belfast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Several people requested further research details and asked for publication details for integration into their own research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Stethoscapes : listening to the body in a London Hospital, departmental seminar, anthropology department, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to the anthropology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The seminar and discussion can be downloaded as a podcast at - http://anthro.ucsc.edu/news_and_events/media/Rice_10_20_08.mp3 Several colleagues requested further research details for integration into their own research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://anthro.ucsc.edu/news_and_events/media/Rice_10_20_08.mp3 |
| Description | The doctor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Performance of a short story based on my ethnographic fieldwork. The presentation included a short explanation of how fiction writing may be used to introduce academic ideas. Many inquiries about my research from members of the public |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | The resounding body, invited lecture at FRISE art collective, Hamburg |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards Numerous questions asked, identified and made contact with important colleagues in research area |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2013 |
| URL | http://www.vamh.de/index.php?gig=2200 |