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Review: Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf

User Review  - Kathryn - Goodreads

This is a fascinating and richly detailed book, as with all of Oliver Sacks's work. I like the way he combines psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology to create a truly nuanced and empathetic ... Read full review

Review: Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf

User Review  - Grace Best-Page - Goodreads

Illuminating, interesting, educational, well-written - just another thought-provoker by Sacks. Read full review

Review: Seeing Voices

User Review  - Matti - Goodreads

Oliver Sacks is great at gaining a reader's interest through his depiction of patients he has worked with. This book, as compared to Anthropologist on Mars and The Man Who Mistook Wife for a Hat ... Read full review

Review: Seeing Voices

User Review  - Sarah - Goodreads

Excellent intro to the history and theory of deafness and deaf culture. Highly readable & friendly style, intriguing and thoroughly satisfying read. Good for anyone interested in topics revolving around any kind of language and human expression of self. Read full review

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User Review  - Janine Pezzino - Goodreads

I enjoyed seeing deaf culture from a different point of view. Read full review

Review: Seeing Voices

User Review  - Delores Cook - Goodreads

Interesting, finally understand more about deaf and why my sister is like she is. I remember going with her as a child to the deaf and blind center in Dallas and telling the lady she needed her hands ... Read full review

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User Review  - Paul - Goodreads

I was very excited by the prospect of reading about Sign Language and, in a broader context, the deaf community; in some aspects, this book delivered on (or exceeded) my expectations, but in other ... Read full review

Review: Seeing Voices

User Review  - Jay - Goodreads

An interesting book of some of the history of deaf culture in the USA, but now dated and in reality a shallow view from the outside. Read full review

Review: Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf

User Review  - Heather - Goodreads

Not as memorable for me as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat & Other Clinical Tales but not much would be. Read full review

Review: Seeing Voices

User Review  - Nenia Campbell - Goodreads

think about what you know about deaf people. anything? nothing? ha, ha. very funny. when we think of the 1800s, we generally like to think that we've come a long way since then. women's rights. civil ... Read full review

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