Seeing Voices

Zusatztext Scholarly and carefully documented, Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding total deafness. Informationen zum Autor Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia . Born in London and educated at Oxford, he held positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move , was published shortly before his death in August 2015. Klappentext 'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence, but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book, Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this, including the different ways in which the deaf and the hearing impaired learn to categorize their respective worlds - and how they convey and communicate those experiences to others. Vorwort From the bestselling author of Awakenings , The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. Zusammenfassung From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Oliver Sacks
• Editore: Picador Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 18 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780330523646
• ISBN: 978-0-330-52364-6
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Picador
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; popular science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Anthropology, MEDICAL / Audiology & Speech Pathology, HEALTH & FITNESS / Hearing & Speech, Popular psychology, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Disability: social aspects, Coping with physical impairments / disability, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication