{"product_id":"9781429953375","title":"Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAudiologists 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShouting Won\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003et Help \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of 2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153911202032,"sku":"9781429953375","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429953375_p0.jpg?v=1769902365","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429953375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}