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Examines hearing loss from the perspectives of the hard of hearing, particularly those who lost, or partially lost, their hearing in adulthood, whether or not they used hearing aids

Sets a new agenda in a much neglected area of historical writing, providing an easily accessible starting point in the field of hearing loss studies

Draws upon histories of technology and material culture, advertising history, gender studies, museum studies, publishing history, institutional history, and disability studies

Autorentext

Graeme Gooday is Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the University of Leeds, UK. His specialist research themes include communications, electrification, patenting and gender in the period 1850-1930. He collaborates with various museums in collections-based research, especially the Thackray Museum and its substantial collection of hearing aids.

Karen Sayer is Professor of Social and Cultural History at Leeds Trinity University, UK, and addresses changing conceptualisations of the human and animal body in relation to technology. She works within the interdisciplinary team of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies and organised the landmark conference Disability & the Victorians: Confronting Legacies, 2012.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The diverse and changing categories of deafness.- Chapter 3: Advice for managing hearing loss.- Chapter 4: Communicating with hearing loss.- Chapter 5: Selling and using hearing aids.- Chapter 6: Preventing deafness: two medical approaches.- Chapter 7: Institutionally organising for hearing loss.- Chapter 8: Epilogue.