{"product_id":"shouting-wont-help-why-i-and-50-million-other-americans-cant-hear-you","title":"Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You","description":"For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was \"the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century.\"\nAudiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss―17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, and in many cases the cause is unknown.\nShouting Won't Help is a deftly written, deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. In the style of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and using her experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, and neurobiologists, and with a variety of people afflicted with midlife hearing loss, braiding their stories with her own to illuminate the startling effects of the condition.\nThe result is a surprisingly engaging account of what it's like to live with an invisible disability―and a robust prescription for our nation's increasing problem with deafness.\nA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374263043\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374263043.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bouton, Katherine\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41429321482298,"sku":"DBV.0374263043.G","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374263043-0.jpg?v=1779557289","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/shouting-wont-help-why-i-and-50-million-other-americans-cant-hear-you","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}