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Categorizing and investigating the experiences of a group defined through individual members' emotional experience of hearing loss as a loss is a simple yet innovative approach, making this book valuable to the burgeoning field of the history of emotions In line with insights from historians of technology, they consider technologies in the widest sense to include tools such as paper, pens, journals, and hearing aids alongside lip-reading, note-writing, and correspondence networks Noteworthy is the authors' use of primary source material to write a detailed history of the National Institute for the Deaf (now Action on Hearing Loss), and the organization will receive all profits from this book