Seeing Voices

{{Short description|Book by Oliver Sacks}}

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| name = Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf

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| image = Seeing Voices (Oliver Sacks book).jpg

|alt=A book cover with text saying "Seeing Voices A Journey Into The World Of The Deaf Oliver Sacks Author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" on a blue and black background

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| author = Oliver Sacks

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| subject = Deaf studies, sign language

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| publisher = University of California Press (first U.S. edition)

| pub_date = August 1989

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| media_type = Print -- Hardcover (First Edition)

| pages = 180 (first edition)

| isbn = 0-5200-6083-0

| dewey = 305.9/08162 20

| congress = HV2370 .S23 1989

| oclc = 19455916

| preceded_by = The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)

| followed_by = An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)

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Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf is a 1989 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The book covers a variety of topics in Deaf studies, including sign language, the neurology of deafness, the history of the treatment of Deaf Americans, and linguistic and social challenges facing the Deaf community. It also contains an eyewitness account of the March 1988 Deaf President Now student protest at Gallaudet University, the only liberal arts college for deaf and hard of hearing in the world.[http://www.oliversacks.com/books-by-oliver-sacks/seeing-voices/ Seeing Voices (official website)]. Retrieved 7 June 2009. Seeing Voices was Sacks' fifth book.[http://www.oliversacks.com/books-by-oliver-sacks/ Books by Oliver Sacks (official website)]. Retrieved 7 June 2009.