Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830-1930 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Pivot
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2017
Authors:	Graeme Gooday • Karen Sayer
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	126
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-40687-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-137-40687-9
Barcode:	9781137406873

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