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Cargando... Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (Chicago Visions and Revisions)por Jaipreet Virdi
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Any talented historian could have put together a narrative covering the lowlights on quack cures for deaf and hard of hearing people across history, but this title is made richer by the author's personal experiences. She notes that childhood was difficult with a clear hearing deficit and parents that wanted to find workable solutions so put more stock in hearing aids and prayers than were truly effective. ( ) First thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed the book, especially since I live in Rochester, NY which is home to the Rochester School for the Deaf, one of the oldest schools in the US. I have worked with them several times in the past and they are a wonderful school but enough of that. The book truly details the history of hearing products, cures, research, etc,, over the years and accompanied with advertisements and pictures makes it very interesting. I only rated it 3 stars because sometimes I got lost as it seemed to get too weighed down and technical for me - the average hearing reader so maybe I am not being completely fair. Still all in all it was worth the read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"In the mid-nineteenth century, deaf people were expected to overcome their hearing defects, to learn to mask their deafness through speech or speechreading, undergo various medical therapeutics, or make use of hearing aids. A variety of methods were used from burning caustics, blistering, hammering, and bloodletting to mercury, urine, oil of earthworm, and fat of eels. Ear trumpets and other prosthetics provided glimmers of hope, though in many instances, they were useless for pre-lingually deaf persons. But any cure was better than no cure. The message was so powerful that even as safer surgical procedures and newer technologies were devised, the message remained steadfast, inviting unscrupulous quacks to profit by promising hope. Hearing Happiness explores how, between the 1860s and 1960s, as American culture was obsessed with establishing conformity, the problem of deafness was perceived as nothing more than a problem of better living. The author's personal journey, narrated along the way, makes vivid this new and distinctive account of American deaf history, told through the lens of medical and technological "cures" before modern hearing aids and implants"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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