The Artificial Ear - Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness (Paperback)

When it was first developed, the cochlear implant was hailed as a "miracle cure" for deafness. That relatively few deaf adults seemed to want it was puzzling. The technology was then modified for use with deaf children, 90 percent of whom have hearing parents. Then, controversy struck as the Deaf community overwhelmingly protested the use of the device and procedure. For them, the cochlear implant was not viewed in the context of medical progress and advances in the physiology of hearing, but instead represented the historic oppression of deaf people and of sign languages.

Part ethnography and part historical study, "The Artificial Ear" is based on interviews with researchers who were pivotal in the early development and implementation of the new technology. Through an analysis of the scientific and clinical literature, Stuart Blume reconstructs the history of artificial hearing from its conceptual origins in the 1930s, to the first attempt at cochlear implantation in Paris in the 1950s, and to the widespread clinical application of the "bionic ear" since the 1980s.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Stuart Blume
Dimensions:	226 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-4660-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) > Audiology & otology Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-4660-5
Barcode:	9780813546605

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