Seeing Voices

Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf

Author	Oliver Sacks
Language	English
Subject	Deaf studies, sign language
Publisher	University of California Press (first U.S. edition)
Publication date	August 1989
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print -- Hardcover (First Edition)
Pages	180 (first edition)
ISBN	0-5200-6083-0
OCLC	19455916
Dewey Decimal	305.9/08162 20
LC Class	HV2370 .S23 1989
Preceded by	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)
Followed by	An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)

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.^[1] Seeing Voices was Sacks' fifth book.^[2]