Seeing Voices

Type

Book

Authors

Oliver Sacks

ISBN 10

0375704078

ISBN 13

9780375704079

Tags

Physical Impairments, Neuropsychology, Sign Language, Health Care Delivery, Audiology & Speech Pathology, Neurology, General, Disabled, Class, Social Sciences

Description

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work." - from Amzon

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