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  Title

  Scales to scalpels : doctors who practice the healing arts of music and medicine

  Author

  Wong, Lisa (Pediatrician)  

  Publisher:

  Pegasus Books,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  xvii, 284 p. :

  ISBN:

  9781605981772

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    ML3838 .W66 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9781605981772

  ISBN:

  160598177X

  Personal Author:

  Wong, Lisa (Pediatrician)

  Title:

  Scales to scalpels : doctors who practice the healing arts of music and medicine / Lisa Wong with Robert Viagas.

  Publication info:

  New York : Pegasus Books, c2012.

  Physical description:

  xvii, 284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

  Contents:

  Foreword / Bernard Lown, M.D. -- Foreword / Dr. Lisa Wong -- Part I: Introducing the musician-physician. Overture to the musician-physician ; A pediatrician with a violin ; Music and healers, from Apollo to Dr. Albert Schweitzer ; The Longwood Symphony Orchestra finds its own Lambaréné -- Part II: Music, medicine, and healing. musician-physician modulation ; Music as healing ; Music and brain development ; Left and right hemispheres ; Overcoming discord ; Musician, heal thyself ; Music and mental health -- Part II. musician-physicians and the community. From classing chords to perfect harmonies ; Bringing the humanities back to medicine ; Tomorrow's musician-physicians -- Appendix A. What we listen to -- Appendix B. Personal suggestions from the musician-physicians -- Works cited -- Additional articles -- Long Symphony Orchestra's community partners 1991-2011 -- Notes.

  Summary:

  "The inspiring story of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra and the astounding interplay between music and medicine"--Jacket.

  Held by:

  AURORA

  Subject term:

  Physicians as musicians.

  Subject term:

  Healing--Songs and music.

  Subject term:

  Healing--Psychological aspects.

  Subject term:

  Music--Physiological effect.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Viagas, Robert.

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