The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness - Brossura

Blume, Stuart

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0813546605 ISBN 13: 9780813546605

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Stuart Blume is professor emeritus of science dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the author of several books, includingInsight and Industry: The Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0813546605
• ISBN 13: 9780813546605
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 226