1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460234803321

Autore

Blume Stuart S. <1942->

Titolo

The artificial ear [[electronic resource] ] : cochlear implants and the culture of deafness / / Stuart Blume

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8135-4911-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

617.8/8220592

Soggetti

Cochlear implants - Social aspects

Cochlear implants - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Promise of New Medical Technology -- Chapter 2. The Making of the Cochlear Implant -- Chapter 3. The Cochlear Implant and the Deaf Community -- Chapter 4. The Globalization of a Controversial Technology -- Chapter 5. Implantation Politics in the Netherlands -- Chapter 6. Contexts of Uncertainty: Parental Decision Making -- Chapter 7. Politics and Medical Progress -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 and advances in the physiology of hearing, but instead represented the historic oppression of deaf people and of sign languages. 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. Through an analysis of the scientific and clinical literature, Stuart Blume reconstructs the history of artificial hearing from its conceptual origins in the 1930's, to the first attempt at cochlear implantation in Paris in the 1950's, and to the



widespread clinical application of the "bionic ear" since the 1980's.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707005003321

Autore

Hilsenrath Ernest

Titolo

Design, development, and test-flight of the Rayleigh Scattering Attitude Sensor / / E. Hilsenrath [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Greenbelt, Maryland : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, , September 1997

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 11 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA technical memorandum ; ; 104644

Soggetti

Attitude indicators

Rayleigh scattering

Solar radiation

Radiative transfer

Earth limb

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed April 7, 2016).

"September 1997."

"Performing organization: Laboratory for Atmospheres, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland"--Report documentation page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 11).