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The very broad nineteenth century umbrella notion of ‘deafness’ covered various kinds of differential auditory experience, among which being ‘hard of hearing’ was just the most pervasive. We explore how understandings of deafness developed and multiplied as the manifold causes of acquired deafness in disease and aging developed further differentiations, including the advent of ‘war-deafness’ in the global conflict of 1914–1918.
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Gooday, G., Sayer, K. (2017). The Diverse and Changing Categories of Deafness. In: Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40686-6_2
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