Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830-1930 (1st ed. 2015 edition.)

This title looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated in Britain before the National Health Service.

Explore the changing status of 'hard of hearing' people during the 19th century as categorised among diverse and changing categories of 'deafness', as well as the advisory literature for managing hearing loss, and techniques for communicating with hearing aids, lip-reading and correspondence networks.