Title The artificial ear : cochlear implants and the culture of deafness / Stuart Blume.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (x, 226 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
Subject	Cochlear implants -- Social aspects.
	Cochlear implants -- History.
	Cochlear Implants -- psychology.
	Health Policy.
	Persons With Hearing Impairments -- psychology.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Hearing & Speech.
	MEDICAL -- Audiology & Speech Pathology.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History.
	Cochlear-Implantat.
	Gehörlosigkeit.
	Diskriminierung.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1930-2010
	Geschichte 1950-2010
Other Form:	Print version: Blume, Stuart S., 1942- Artificial ear. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813546605 (DLC) 2009016194 (OCoLC)319247416
ISBN	9780813549118 (electronic bk.)
	0813549116 (electronic bk.)

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