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Seeing Voices

Pages
240
Published
2000
Language
English

Synopsis

Oliver Sacks examines the world of deaf culture and the remarkable visual language of the congenitally deaf. This book offers a deeply felt portrait of a minority group striving for recognition and respect, highlighting their rich culture and unique communication. It explores language, biology, adaptation, and culture, providing insights into the foundations of human communication.

About the author

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of...