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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.
This book explores how dissimilar patent systems remain distinctive
despite international efforts towards harmonization. The dominant
historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with
familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World
Intellectual Property Organization's founding (1967), and the
formation of current global institutions of patent governance. Yet
throughout the modern period, countries fashioned their own
mechanisms for fostering technological invention. Notwithstanding
the harmonization project, diversity in patent cultures remains
stubbornly persistent. No single comprehensive volume describes the
comparative historical development of patent practices. Patent
Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective
seeks to fill this gap. Tracing national patenting from imperial
expansion in the early nineteenth century to our time, this work
asks fundamental questions about the limits of globalization,
innovation's cultural dimension, and how historical context shapes
patent policy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to
understand the contested role of patents in the modern world.
This book explores how dissimilar patent systems remain distinctive
despite international efforts towards harmonization. The dominant
historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with
familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World
Intellectual Property Organization's founding (1967), and the
formation of current global institutions of patent governance. Yet
throughout the modern period, countries fashioned their own
mechanisms for fostering technological invention. Notwithstanding
the harmonization project, diversity in patent cultures remains
stubbornly persistent. No single comprehensive volume describes the
comparative historical development of patent practices. Patent
Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective
seeks to fill this gap. Tracing national patenting from imperial
expansion in the early nineteenth century to our time, this work
asks fundamental questions about the limits of globalization,
innovation's cultural dimension, and how historical context shapes
patent policy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to
understand the contested role of patents in the modern world.
For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater
role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries
and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such
understandings were formed not merely by serious scientific
articles, but also by glancing asides in political reports,
fictional representations, or humorous attacks in comic magazines.
Ranging across diverse forms of periodicals, from top-selling
religious and juvenile magazines through to popular fiction-based
periodicals, and from the campaigning 'new journalism' of the late
century to the comic satire of Punch, this book explores the ways
in which scientific ideas and developments were presented to a
variety of Victorian audiences. In addition, it offers three case
studies of the representation of particular areas of science: 'baby
science', scientific biography, and electricity. This intriguing
collaborative volume sheds light on issues relating to history and
history of science, literature, book history, and cultural and
media studies.
For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater
role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries
and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such
understandings were formed not merely by serious scientific
articles, but also by glancing asides in political reports,
fictional representations, or humorous attacks in comic magazines.
Ranging across diverse forms of periodicals, from top-selling
religious and juvenile magazines through to popular fiction-based
periodicals, and from the campaigning 'new journalism' of the late
century to the comic satire of Punch, this book explores the ways
in which scientific ideas and developments were presented to a
variety of Victorian audiences. In addition, it offers three case
studies of the representation of particular areas of science: 'baby
science', scientific biography, and electricity. This intriguing
collaborative volume sheds new light on issues relating to history
and history of science, literature, book history, and cultural and
media studies.
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