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Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
The Artificial Ear
When it was first developed, the cochlear implant was hailed as a "miracle cure" for deafness. That relatively few deaf adults seemed to want it was puzzling. The technology was then modified for use with deaf children, 90 percent of whom have hearing parents. Then, controversy struck as the Deaf community overwhelmingly protested the use of the device and procedure. For them, the cochlear implant was not viewed in the context of medical progress and advances in the physiology of hearing, but instead represented the historic oppression of deaf people and of sign languages. Part ethnography and part historical study, The Artificial Ear is based on interviews with researchers who were pivotal in the early development and implementation of the new technology. Through an analysis of the scientific and clinical literature, Stuart Blume reconstructs the history of artificial hearing from its conceptual origins in the 1930s, to the first attempt at cochlear implantation in Paris in the 1950s, and to the widespread clinical application of the "bionic ear" since the 1980s.
The Cochlear Story
This book documents the human story behind that development. It delves into the commercial planning and implementation that led to the products success in an international, highly competitive market, and the human drama that was experienced in achieving it.
Into the Cosmos
The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. These events were a direct challenge to the United States and the capitalist model that claimed ownership of scientific aspiration and achievement. The success of the space program captured the hopes and dreams of nearly every Soviet citizen and became a critical cultural vehicle in the country's emergence from Stalinism and the devastation of World War II. It also proved to be an invaluable tool in a worldwide propaganda campaign for socialism, a political system that could now seemingly accomplish ...
»Deaf History« als Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Seit 1945 gab es in westlichen Ländern und der Sowjetunion neue Forschungsimpulse zur Kommunikation gehörloser Menschen, die u.a. über internationale Konferenzen der UNESCO und des Weltverbands der Gehörlosen im geteilten Deutschland alte Traditionen der Sprachvermittlung in Frage stellten. Anja Werner analysiert historisch die Erforschung nationaler Gebärdensprachen im interdisziplinären Dialog mit der zeitgleich stattfindenden Entwicklung hörverstärkender Innenohrprothesen (Cochlea-Implantate). Sie verdeutlicht, dass konstruktive Wissenschaftskooperation nötig ist, um die mit der Kommunikation tauber Menschen verbundenen Herausforderungen komplett zu erfassen - aber auch, um Möglichkeiten zum Fortschritt aufzuzeigen.
