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4/5 Pan Macmillan Pages 180 (first edition) OCLC 19455916 Originally published August 1989 Page count 180 (first edition) | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date August 1989 ISBN 0-5200-6083-0 Dewey Decimal 305.9/08162 20 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print -- Hardcover (First Edition) Publisher University of California Press (first U.S. edition) Subjects Deaf studies, Sign language Similar Oliver Sacks books, Hearing loss books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeing voices
Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf is a 1989 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The book covers a variety of topics in Deaf studies, including sign language, the neurology of deafness, the history of the treatment of Deaf Americans, and linguistic and social challenges facing the Deaf community. It also contains an eyewitness account of the March 1988 Deaf President Now student protest at Gallaudet University, the only liberal arts college for deaf and hard of hearing in the world. Seeing Voices was Sacks' fifth book.
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Reception
Critics of Seeing Voices agreed that the book is highly informative. Publishers Weekly described it as "extraordinarily moving and thought-provoking." While Debra Berlanstein of Library Journal characterized the book as insightful, she wrote that it seems more suited to a scholarly audience than some of Sacks' more popular books. On Amazon.com, Seeing Voices has a rating of 4.4 out of five stars, based upon twenty user reviews.
Editions
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