In many 19th century narratives, hypnosis was the treatment of last resort in order to tackle persistent pain and attain what René Leriche would subsequently call the “silence of the organs.” Faced with such an adversary, hypnosis and music became part of a rhetoric of spectacle, with public displays of insensibility to pain culminating in musical sequences, or pain itself being used with music to create performative trance states. Though hypnosis has been the subject of a vast body of clinical investigation and historical scholarship, the history of its relationship to music remains unwritten. This talk will explore various narratives of this interaction in an attempt to understand how experiments involving music and hypnosis influenced both doctors’ and patients’ moral understanding of bodies in pain.
Explorations in the Medical Humanities
Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Silencing the Body: Hypnosis, Music, and Pain in the 19th C.
Monday, October 2, 2017 6:00pm - 7:30pm The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
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Arden Hegele
Carmel Raz
Heidi Hausse
Lan Li
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Speaker
Céline Frigau ManningAssociate Professor
University of Paris 8 - Institut Universitaire de France
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Respondent
Joelle M. Abi-RachedLecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)
Columbia University
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