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Author Blume, Stuart S., 1942-

Title The artificial ear : cochlear implants and the culture of deafness / Stuart Blume
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 226 pages)
Contents The promise of new medical technology -- The making of the cochlear implant -- The cochlear implant and the deaf community -- The globalization of a controversial technology -- Implantation politics in the Netherlands -- Contexts of uncertainty : parental decision making -- Politics and medical progress
Summary 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 necessary for cochlear implants. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cochlear implants -- Social aspects
Cochlear implants -- History
Medical policy.
Cochlear Implants -- psychology
Persons With Hearing Impairments -- psychology
Health Policy
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Hearing & Speech.
MEDICAL -- Audiology & Speech Pathology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History.
Medical policy
Cochlear implants
Cochlear-Implantat
Gehörlosigkeit
Diskriminierung
Cochleaire implantaten.
Doofheid.
Sociale aspecten.
Cochlear-Implantat.
Gehörlosigkeit.
Diskriminierung.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009016194
ISBN 9780813549118
0813549116