Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain 1830 1930 1st Edition Graeme Gooday 1137406860 9781137406866

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• ISBN 10: 1137406860
• ISBN 13: 9781137406866
• Author: Graeme Gooday

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.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Diverse and Changing Categories of Deafness

3. Advice for Managing Hearing Loss

4. Communicating with Hearing Loss

5. Selling and Using Hearing Aids

6. Preventing Deafness: Two Medical Approaches

7. Institutionally Organizing for Hearing Loss

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