Music and medicine

J Multidiscip Healthc. 2010 Aug 16:3:137-41. doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S11378.

Abstract

Healing sounds have always been considered in the past an important aid in medical practice, and nowadays, medicine has confirmed the efficacy of music therapy in many diseases. The aim of this study is to assess the curative power of music, in the frame of the current clinical relationship.

Keywords: healing music; history of medicine; medical humanities.