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Music And Medicine: Connections
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by Prof. David Akombo |
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List Price: 19.95
ISBN: 1592321585
Year: Feb. 2009
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Description: |
A work of immense value to educators around the
world. --Paedeia Reviews
In Music and Medicine: Their Connections, Dr. David Akombo escorts
the reader upon an odyssey into what has been a virtual terra
incognita for medicine throughout the millennia of recorded time,
the advantageous effect of music upon the psychosomatic unity of the
suffering person. While Dr. Akombo marshals mountains of scientific
evidence to support this thesis, the book is not merely a textbook
for the technically inclined. It is a humanistic synthesis combining
the art and science of medicine with all the polyphonic disciplines
of life: such as philosophy, history, and religion. There are many
maxims associated with music. For Shakespeare music is the food of
love, while many a savage beast has been soothed by the calming
influences of melody, harmony, and rhythm. With overwhelming
evidence Dr. Akombo illustrates that there exists a discernible
causal, and not merely correlational, connection between listening
to music and the diminution of pain, especially for those people
diagnosed with severe and often life threatening ailments. In
addition to the many positive dividends that music offers to the
suffering soul is the fact that it lives up to one of the core
commitments of the Hippocratic oath. Since time immemorial it has
been an ongoing profession of faith that medical practitioners
should first and foremost do no harm. Dr. Akombo assures us, not
only with his solemn oath, but with a faith which has been forged by
overwhelming medical evidence, that as a medical tool for
neutralizing pain music has no hidden drawbacks. At a time of
economic crisis, when our financial assets are quickly turning into
liabilities, music turns out to be the gold standard of medicine.
While it has taken literally thousands of years to know its medical
worth, the medical value of music is perennial and not subject to
the vagaries of the human condition. This book is a must read for
anyone with a pulse, the underlying rhythm of the life force.
--Prof. Glenn Statile |
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| About The Author: |
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Music and Medicine: Connections Found is a
ground-breaking interdisciplinary research concerned with the
connections of two distant fields: Music and Medicine. It is well
recognized that pain and anxiety can affect the autonomic nervous system
(ANS) activity and balance. The interaction between feeling states,
immunity and autonomic function has been demonstrated by a number of
studies showing that emotions such as pain perception and anxiety
stimulate sympathetic activity, increase cortisol ratio and suppress the
immune system, while positive emotional states such as appreciation from
such stimuli as music, enhance parasympathetic activity, increase
physiological coherence, and reduce the cortisol ratio while boosting
immunity. |
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