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.[1] Seeing Voices was Sacks' fifth book.[2]
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| Author | Oliver Sacks |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Deaf studies, sign language |
| Publisher | University of California Press (first U.S. edition) |
Publication date | August 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print -- Hardcover (First Edition) |
| Pages | 180 (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-5200-6083-0 |
| OCLC | 19455916 |
| 305.9/08162 20 | |
| LC Class | HV2370 .S23 1989 |
| Preceded by | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985) |
| Followed by | An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) |
Reception
editCritics 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.
Editions
editThis list only provides details for the most significant editions
- First U.S. Edition: University of California Press, 1989, hardcover, 180 pages, ISBN 0-5200-6083-0.
- First Canadian Edition: Stoddart Publishing, 1989, hardcover, 180 pages, ISBN 0-7737-2374-9.
- 1990-91: Six more editions.
- U.S. Reprint: Vintage Books (Knopf Publishing), 2000, paperback, 240 pages, ISBN 0-3757-0407-8.
- U.S. updated paperback edition (HarperPerennial), 1990, 186pp, ISBN 0-0609-7347-1
References
edit- ^ Seeing Voices (official website). Retrieved 7 June 2009.
- ^ Books by Oliver Sacks (official website). Retrieved 7 June 2009.
External links
edit- Seeing Voices (Oliver Sacks' official website)
- Oliver Sacks discusses Seeing Voices with John Forrester - a British Library sound recording