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Deaf Epistemology: Deafhood and Deafness

American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
Deaf epistemology constitutes the nature and extent of the knowledge that deaf individuals acquire growing up in a society that relies primarily on audition to navigate life. Deafness creates beings who are more visually oriented compared to their auditorily oriented peers.
Peter C, Hauser   +4 more
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Conversion Deafness

Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 1993
Conversion deafness is very rarely encountered among adults. This report will illustrate two cases of this somatoform disorder following different traumatic experiences. It emphasizes the difficulties in establishing the diagnosis and reviews various aspects of treatment.
M, Wolf   +3 more
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Luetic Deafness

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 1973
AbstractLuetic deafness is an otologic tragedy, not only because it can cause a total sensori‐neural deafness, but also it is a treatable condition if recognized.The most prominent feature of luetic deafness is discrimination loss out of proportion to the pure tone threshold.
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MICHEL'S DEAFNESS

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1972
To the Editor .—Paparella and ElFiky, in their paper "Mondini's Deafness," (95:134-140, 1972), state that "the only recent description of complete aplasia (Michel's) occurred as a result of thalidomide poisoning. In June 1969, I published a study of "Inner Ear Abnormalities in Association With Congenital Atresia of the External Auditory Canal ...
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Beethoven's deafness

The Laryngoscope, 1989
The purpose of this study was to document the differences between the music Beethoven wrote while he had good hearing and the music he wrote while he was deaf, thereby showing that Beethoven used auditory feedback in transferring the concept in his mind to the manuscript notation on the ...
S L, Liston   +3 more
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Goya’s deafness

Practical Neurology, 2008
Francisco Goya (1746–1828), a major Spanish artist, became profoundly deaf aged 46 years, following an acute illness. Despite this, his success continued and he eventually died aged 82 years. His illness is sketchily documented in letters written during his convalescence, describing headache, deafness, tinnitus, unsteadiness and visual disturbance with
P E M, Smith   +3 more
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Beethoven's Deafness

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970
To the Editor.— After reading the thorough article on Beethoven's deafness which covered it from every angle and point of view and eliminated most of the diseases and afflictions which might have been the cause of his deafness, nevertheless I feel that one important cause has not been considered. Young Beethoven had a very unhappy childhood.
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Mondini's Deafness

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1972
The temporal bone findings from two patients with Mondini's genetic aplastic deafness are described. Profound sensorineural deafness was present in both cases and audiology and speech studies were available for the first patient. Cochlear changes which were similar for both, consisted of a flattened cochlear capsule, 1½ instead of 2½ cochlear turns ...
M M, Paparella, F M, el-Fiky
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Beethoven's Deafness

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
To the Editor.— I wonder if anyone has considered the possibility of Paget's disease of the bone as the cause of Beethoven's deafness. At postmortem examination his skull was "of great density and a thickness amounting to about half an inch." If he had had this condition, death could conceivably have been due to high output heart failure.
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