The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness

by Stuart Blume

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813546605
• ISBN13: 9780813546605
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"