Overcoming Deafness: The Story Of Hearing And Language by Ell... - 9781783264643

Overcoming Deafness: The Story Of Hearing And LanguageAuthor(s): Ellis Douek\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Imperial College Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Imperial College Press\nISBN-13: 9781783264643, 978-1783264643\nSynopsis\nHearing 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 .