Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf

Oliver Sacks, Oliver W. Sacks

Picador, 2009 - Medical - 222 pages

With Seeing Voices Dr Sacks launches us on a journey into the world of the deaf – which he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere.

‘Oliver Sacks, blessed with an understanding heart and poetic voice, speaks the language of the deaf. An exquisite, as well as revelatory, work’ Studs Terkel

‘This scholarly and carefully documented book is a landmark for deaf rights. It makes the gigantic, imaginative leap so essential to understanding total deafness’ Jack Ashley, Sunday Telegraph

‘Compelling . . . A journey well worth taking . . . One cannot read more than a few pages of Sacks without seeing something in a new way’ Los Angeles Times

‘Written by a hearing – and caring – neurologist who through empathy and contact has penetrated a long way into deaf culture. What he has written about should be compulsory reading – I do not recall another book which puts the issues so clearly for the rest of us’ Alex Comfort, Guardian

‘A manifesto characteristically humane and impassioned . . . Once more Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face’ Roy Porter, Sunday Times

About the author

Oliver Wolf Sacks is a neurologist and writer. He was born in London, England on July 9, 1933. Sacks earned his medical degree at Oxford University and performed his internship at Middlesex Hospital in London and Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He completed his residency at UCLA. In 1965, Sacks became a clinical neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor and Beth Abraham Hospital. He also worked with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Sacks' work in a Bronx charity hospital led him to write the book Awakenings in 1973. The book inspired a play by Harold Pinter and became a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Sacks was also elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also wrote Mind's Eye which made The NewYork Times Bestseller list for 2010.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
• Authors: Oliver Sacks, Oliver W. Sacks
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Picador, 2009
• ISBN: 0330507613, 9780330507615
• Length: 222 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Audiology & Speech Pathology; Medical / Neurology; Psychology / Neuropsychology; Psychology / Physiological Psychology; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General; Social Science / People with Disabilities; Social Science / Sociology / General