Biography hearing loss
Biography hearing loss
Hearing loss and dementia!
Many people are surprised to discover how young the profession of audiology actually is, and how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go back in time by 2,300 years and read the The History of Animals, a natural history text composed in the fourth century BCE by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.
In contrast, to find the founding father of audiology, we need go back only 70 years, to 1945 when Raymond Carhart popularized the word.
But who was Raymond Carhart, and how did he come to start a distinctive scientific discipline so recently? The story starts with World War II.
World War II and Hearing Loss
One of history’s greatest lessons shows us that necessity is the mother of invention, signifying that difficult scenarios prompt inventions aimed at relieving the difficulty.
Such was the story for audiology, as hearing loss was proving to be a l