Voice Perspectives

A sketch of the partnership between speech pathology and laryngology; a cultural history of the human voice; reminiscences of a phoniatrist; that golden voice; the versatile voice-box; observations on the normal and ailing voice; vocal mechanisms in singing; voice research; what's so special about singers?; restoration of the voice in benign lesions of the vocal folds by enolaryngeal microsurgery; laboratory advances for voice measurements; mechanical stress in phonation; new voices for old; rational thought; the odyssey of Orpheus.