Overcoming Deafness

The Story of Hearing and Language

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Otorhinolaryngology, Internal Medicine, Neurology
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Author: Ellis Douek ISBN: 9781783264674
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: June 27, 2014
Imprint: ICP Language: English
Author: Ellis Douek
ISBN: 9781783264674
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: June 27, 2014
Imprint: ICP
Language: English

Hearing is one of the most empowering of our senses; it enables us to work, socialise and communicate. It's hard to imagine living in a silent world, yet just 60 years ago this was the inevitable outcome for the majority of people with ear disease or language problems. Nowadays, virtually everybody can be helped to some extent and many cured. But how did we get here?

This book tells the fascinating story of science and medicine's winning battle with deafness, covering all the hearing diseases and the progress of their treatment from the beginning of Ellis Douek's career in the 1950s to the present day. Unlike other books on hearing, this covers language disorders as well as the surgery of deafness; it is a book about human communication, discussing music and poetry as well as delving into the medical science.

In our ageing population, hearing disorders are increasingly a part of everyday life; that they are almost always treatable should not be taken for granted. This book should be the first reference for anyone who has experienced hearing loss and would like to know more about hearing and language development, and for professionals in hearing science, medicine and allied fields of interest.

Contents:

  • Sound and Hearing:

    • Sound
    • Hearing
  • Deafness:

    • Conductive Deafness
    • Disease of the Middle Ear
    • Perceptive or Neurosensory Deafness
  • Communication:

    • Language
    • Music and the Sound of Feelings
    • Poetry and the Sound of Words
  • Impaired Communication:

    • When Hearing is Impaired
    • When the Hearing is Normal

Readership: Professionals dealing with communication disorders and hearing science including Surgeons, Paediatricians, Audiologists, Doctors, Therapists and Teachers.
Key Features:

  • There are no competing books as all others address only single specialities
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Hearing is one of the most empowering of our senses; it enables us to work, socialise and communicate. It's hard to imagine living in a silent world, yet just 60 years ago this was the inevitable outcome for the majority of people with ear disease or language problems. Nowadays, virtually everybody can be helped to some extent and many cured. But how did we get here?

This book tells the fascinating story of science and medicine's winning battle with deafness, covering all the hearing diseases and the progress of their treatment from the beginning of Ellis Douek's career in the 1950s to the present day. Unlike other books on hearing, this covers language disorders as well as the surgery of deafness; it is a book about human communication, discussing music and poetry as well as delving into the medical science.

In our ageing population, hearing disorders are increasingly a part of everyday life; that they are almost always treatable should not be taken for granted. This book should be the first reference for anyone who has experienced hearing loss and would like to know more about hearing and language development, and for professionals in hearing science, medicine and allied fields of interest.

Contents:

Readership: Professionals dealing with communication disorders and hearing science including Surgeons, Paediatricians, Audiologists, Doctors, Therapists and Teachers.
Key Features:

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