Further Reading

Chapter 3: AID

Mälzel and Beethoven’s ear trumpets at the Beethoven Haus, Bonn: http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/list.php?page=ausstellungsstuecke_museum_en&skip=10

History of hearing aids: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/the-history-of-hearing-aids

Chapter 4: LOSS

Statistics on hearing loss: https://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/your-hearing/about-deafness-and-hearing-loss/statistics.aspx

NHS Action Plan on Hearing Loss, Prof. Sue Hill, Kevin Holton, Cathy Regan, Department of Health, March 2015: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/act-plan-hearing-loss-upd.pdf

Hearing loss and mental health: https://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/~/media/Documents/Policy%20research%20and%20influencing/Research/Mental%20health/Mental_health_report.ashx

Deafness in Mind, Sally Austen and Susan Crocker, Whurr Publishers, London, 2005

Pseudohypacusis: False and Exaggerated Hearing Loss, James E. Peck, Plural Publishing, San Diego, 2011

Psychogenic deafness: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1954.tb05696.x/abstract

Occupational Hearing Loss, Robert Thayer Sataloff, Joseph Sataloff, 3rd edn, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 2006

‘The treatment of hysterical deafness at Hoff General Hospital’, Andrew I. Rosenberger and James H. Moore, American Journal of Psychiatry, http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/author/ROSENBERGER%2C

Chapter 5: CONDUCTION

Beethoven’s symptoms: http://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearinginternational/2011/hearing-beethoven-part-ii-the-medical-conclusion/

Letters of Beethoven, vol. I, Emily Anderson, Macmillan, London, 1961, LL

Beethoven: Biography of a Genius, George R. Marek, William Kimber, London, 1970, LL

Beethoven Depicted by His Contemporaries, Ludwig Nohl, trans. Emily Hill, W. Reeves, London, 1880

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Vol. 3, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, CUP, 1921, Google Books

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, Jan Swafford, Faber & Faber, London, 2014, LL

Chapter 6: ROCK

Music and volume: WHO factsheet on hearing loss: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs300/en/

German study on musicians’ risk of hearing loss: https://www.bips-institut.de/no_cache/en/publications/press/single-view/artikel/laerminduzierter-hoerschaden-vierfach-hoeheres-risiko-bei-professionellen-musikern.html

French horn players: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10334527/French-horn-players-are-most-at-risk-of-hearing-loss-in-an-orchestra.html

Classical v. rock risk of loss: https://www.cnet.com/news/shocker-the-most-deaf-musicians-arent-rockers/

Musicians with hearing loss: http://www.musicianshearingservices.co.uk/category/testimonials/

George Martin Telegraph obituary, 9 March 2016: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/george-martin-the-greatest-music-producer-who-ever-lived/

George Martin hearing loss: http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/09/interview-sir-george-martin-pt-4.html

Giles Martin: http://studio.sonos.com/article/conversation-giles-martin

Chapter 7: ACOUSTICS

Build the Ships: The Official Story of the Shipyards in Wartime, V. S. Pritchett, MoI, 1946, HMSO, LL

Enquiry Into the Effects of Loud Sounds upon the Hearing of Boilermakers and Others Who Work Amid Noisy Surroundings, Thomas Barr, Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1886: https://archive.org/details/b21457384

The Diseases of Occupations, Donald Hunter, English Universities Press, London 1962

An Inevitable Consequence: The Story of Industrial Deafness, Dick Bowdler, https://www.dickbowdler.co.uk/content/publications/The-Inevitable-Consequence.pdf

Noise, Rupert Taylor, Penguin, London, 1975

Restaurant acoustics: Andrew Corkill, Director, Spectrum Acoustics: email 9 August 2016

‘How much noise can we stand?’, Rupert Taylor, Daily Telegraph Magazine, no. 346, 11 June 1971

Chapter 9: DISTORTION

Noise and Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in the Military, ed. Larry E. Humes, Lois M. Joellenbeck and Jane S. Durch, National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2006: https://www.nap.edu/read/11443/chapter/5#78

Research on Hearing Loss, US Dept of Veterans Affairs: http://www.research.va.gov/topics/hearing.cfm

Use of hearing protection on military operations: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22319982

Impact of Noise on Hearing in the Military, Jenica Su-ern Yong and De-Yun Wang, Military Medical Research, 2015: http://mmrjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40779-015-0034-5 (UK)

NIHL payments to US vets: War Is Loud: Hearing Loss Most Common Veteran Injury: http://backhome.news21.com/article/hearing/

Conductive Hearing Loss – Synopsis of Causation, S. S. Musheer Hussain and Kevin Gibbin, MoD, September 2008: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/synopsis-of-causation-conductive-hearing-loss

Sensorineural Hearing Loss – Synopsis of Causation, Dr Adrian Roberts and Kevin Gibbin, MoD, September 2008: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384550/sensorineural_hearing_loss.pdf

‘Heritage of Army audiology and the road ahead: the Army Hearing Program’. Am. J. Public Health, 98(12), December 2008, pp. 2167–72: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636536/ inc. Table 2: ‘Effect of tank crewmen’s ability to understand spoken orders on their performance in combat situations in the US Army’

Ministry of Defence FOI response 2014: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/346766/PUBLIC_1408522542_armed_forces_with_hearing_loss.pdf

Ministry of Defence FOI response 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/508823/Defence_Statistics_FOI_2016_02860____The_number_of_UK_Armed_Forces_personel_graded_from_H1_to_H4_including_noise_hearing_loose_claims_from_2011_to_2015.pdf

Military hearing loss – online forums: https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/hearing-loss-can-i-claim.196099/

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?54482-va-benefits-for-hearing-loss/

http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/488748-hearing-loss-armed-forces-compensation-scheme.html

Irish army compensation claims: Whistleblower, Soldier, Spy: A Journey into the Dark Heart of the Global War on Terror, Tom Clonan, Liberties Press, Dublin, 2013

Looking for Trouble, General Sir Peter de la Billière, HarperCollins, London, 1994, LL

‘Welcome to “The Disco”’, Clive Stafford-Smith, Guardian, 19 June 2008: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/usa.guantanamo

‘Music as torture: war is loud’, David Peisner, Spin, 30 November 2006: http://www.spin.com/2006/11/music-torture-war-loud/

‘When music is violence’, Alex Ross, New Yorker, 4 July 2016: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/04/when-music-is-violence

‘What America learned about torture from Israel and Britain’, Joshua Keeting, Slate, 15 December 2014: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/12/15/what_america_learned_about_torture_from_israel_and_britain.html

Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, ed. David Suisman and Susan Strasser, University of Pennyslvania Press, Philadelphia, 2010: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UCbeD5RvI_0C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=shafiq+rasul+noise&source=bl&ots=Nq56ksnjqP&sig=DejXak92CuaI_VuJple7JGXoNG4&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=shafiq%20rasul%20noise&f=false

Sound torture during the Iraqi War: Justin Caba, 20 January 2015: http://www.medicaldaily.com/torture-methods-sound-how-pure-noise-can-be-used-break-you-psychologically-318638

US Senate Intelligence Committee Report 2014: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf

Chapter 10: SIGN

Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon, Vintage Books, London, 2012

Chapter 11: VISION

Inside Job: Lucian Freud in the Studio, Photographs by David Dawson, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, 2004

Chapter 12: SURFACING

Soldier, Soldier, Tony Parker, Heinemann, London, 1985

The People of Providence, Tony Parker, Eland, London, 1983