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Seeing Voices : a Journey Into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W Sacks is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Seeing Voices : a Journey Into the World of the Deaf about?
Oliver Sacks has been described (by The New York Times Book Review ) as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century," and his books, including the medical classics Migraine and Awakenings , have been widely praised by critics from W. H. Auden to Harold Pinter to Doris Lessing. In his last book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat , Dr. Sacks undertook a fascinating journey into the world of the neurologically impaired, an exploration that Noel Perrin in the Chicago Sun-Times called "wise, compassionate, and very literate . . . the kind that restore(s) one's faith in humanity." Now, with Seeing Voices , Dr. Sacks takes us into the world of the deaf, a world he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere. Seeing Voices is a journey: a journey first into the history of deaf people, the (often outrageous) ways in which they were seen and treated in the past, and the new understanding that started to dawn in the eighteenth century; and a journey into the present situation of the deaf--a situation which, all too often, is still one of misunderstanding and mistreatment. Dr. Sacks writes of how h
Who reads Seeing Voices : a Journey Into the World of the Deaf?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Oliver W Sacks
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375704079
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Psychology, Linguistics
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (57 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
