Music and Medicine

Description from DukeHub

Music has always been a great deal more than entertainment: it is a fundamental tool for understanding the natural world and the functions of the human body. Music is at the seam between the physical and mental: highly mathematical, measurable, and precise, but also magical, mysterious, and capable of speaking to the irrationality of human emotion. This course will explore the history of music and medicine to consider the intertwined histories of art and science through topics such as music and healing; musical understandings in human anatomy; harmony in the natural world; cultural studies of music and health; philosophy of sound in cosmology; and music as treatment in the history of medicine.Open to all students with or without a background in music.

Skills

• makingdepartment: MUSIC

AI-resilient: 0 of 5 0/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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