LEADER 03388nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910785283003321 005 20230207213721.0 010 $a0-8135-4911-6 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813549118 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040932 035 $a(OCoLC)659558174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10393230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412158 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11281516 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412158 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10365608 035 $a(PQKB)10588798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC870073 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8184 035 $a(DE-B1597)526177 035 $a(OCoLC)1121056299 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813549118 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL870073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10393230 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL915853 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040932 100 $a20090423d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe artificial ear$b[electronic resource] $ecochlear implants and the culture of deafness /$fStuart Blume 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8135-4659-1 311 $a0-8135-4660-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. The Promise of New Medical Technology --$tChapter 2. The Making of the Cochlear Implant --$tChapter 3. The Cochlear Implant and the Deaf Community --$tChapter 4. The Globalization of a Controversial Technology --$tChapter 5. Implantation Politics in the Netherlands --$tChapter 6. Contexts of Uncertainty: Parental Decision Making --$tChapter 7. Politics and Medical Progress --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWhen 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. 606 $aCochlear implants$xSocial aspects 606 $aCochlear implants$xHistory 615 0$aCochlear implants$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCochlear implants$xHistory. 676 $a617.8/8220592 700 $aBlume$b Stuart S.$f1942-$01508978 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785283003321 996 $aThe artificial ear$93740510 997 $aUNINA