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The Science of Walking - Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Science of Walking - Investigations into Locomotion in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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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 yet essential to our human nature: walking.
Most people see walking as a natural and unremarkable activity of
daily life, yet the mechanism has long puzzled scientists and
doctors, who considered it an elusive, recalcitrant, and even
mysterious act. 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.
Looking back at more than a century of locomotion research, Mayer
charts, for the first time, the rise of scientific endeavors to
control and codify locomotion and analyzes their social, political,
and aesthetic ramifications throughout the long nineteenth century.
In an engaging narrative that weaves together science and history,
Mayer sets the work of the most important representatives of the
physiology of locomotion--including Wilhelm and Eduard Weber and
Etienne-Jules Marey--in their proper medical, political, and
artistic contexts. In tracing the effects of locomotion studies
across other cultural domains, Mayer reframes the history of the
science of walking and gives us a deeper understanding of human
movement.
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