SHOUTING WON'T HELP: Why I -- and 50 Million Other Americans -- Can't Hear You
By Katherine Bouton. Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux. February 2013. 

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"Shouting Won't Help" is a reported memoir of midlife, mid career hearing loss. There are many excellent books about deafness but very few about going deaf. "Shouting Won't Help" shares my experience of sudden progressive hearing loss at age 30, as well as the stories of others from across the country who lost their hearing in adulthood. Hearing loss affects 48 million Americans, 17 percent of the population. It is almost twice as common as vision problems, but carrying such stigma that many seek to hide it. This book discusses the personal, professional and psychological effects of midlife hearing loss. It also looks at the causes of hearing loss, at our love affair with noise, at the cost and efficacy of hearing aids and cochlear implants, at the related conditions tinnitus and vertigo, and at promising research in the fields of gene therapy and stem cell regeneration as way to reverse hearing loss. 

Katherine Bouton is a former editor at the New York Times and author of 
"Shouting Won't Help: Why I -- and 50 Million Other Americans -- Can't Hear You." 
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux
February 2013

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Katherine Bouton lives in New York City with her husband, Daniel Menaker, and their dog Maxwell. Their two children, William and Elizabeth, live in Brooklyn. 
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