Review: “Losing Music” offers readers a compelling portrait of what life is like with the rare and incurable condition Ménière’s disease
Without self-pity — or at least with measured doses of it — “Losing Music” offers a compelling portrait of how deafness isolates people from even those closest to them. Cotter quotes Helen Keller: “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” More broadly, he also challenges us to better understand how any disability radically alters a person’s sense of self.
Cotter’s medical journey is interspersed with a mini-history of the science for treating deafness — from the Greeks, whose attempted cure involved “wool soaked in turpentine,” to King John VI of Portugal, who had a special “acoustical chair” with hidden sound-amplifying channels that visitors had to kneel before, to the “speaking trumpets” that were popular until laws cracked down on people with disabilities starting in the 1860s.
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