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Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830-1930 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830-1930 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced,
viewed and treated in Britain before the National Health Service.
We explore the changing status of 'hard of hearing' people during
the nineteenth century as categorized among diverse and changing
categories of 'deafness'. Then we explore the advisory literature
for managing hearing loss, and techniques for communicating with
hearing aids, lip-reading and correspondence networks. From
surveying the commercial selling and daily use of hearing aids, we
see how adverse developments in eugenics prompted otologists to
focus primarily on the prevention of deafness. The final chapter
shows how hearing loss among First World War combatants prompted
hearing specialists to take a more supportive approach, while it
fell to the National Institute for the Deaf, formed in 1924, to
defend hard of hearing people against unscrupulous hearing aid
vendors. This book is suitable for both academic audiences and the
general reading public. All royalties from sale of this book will
be given to Action on Hearing Loss and the National Deaf Children's
Society.
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