Review: Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
User Review - Kathryn - GoodreadsThis 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 - GoodreadsIlluminating, interesting, educational, well-written - just another thought-provoker by Sacks. Read full review
Review: Seeing Voices
User Review - Matti - GoodreadsOliver 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 - GoodreadsExcellent 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
Review: Seeing Voices
User Review - Janine Pezzino - GoodreadsI enjoyed seeing deaf culture from a different point of view. Read full review
Review: Seeing Voices
User Review - Delores Cook - GoodreadsInteresting, 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
Review: Seeing Voices
User Review - Paul - GoodreadsI 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 - GoodreadsAn 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 - GoodreadsNot 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 - Goodreadsthink 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