Word: audiologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's University College Hospital, Obstetrician C. N. Smyth and Audiologist K. P. Murphy were trying to find out why some babies are born deaf. To their surprise, they discovered that even while normal babies are still in the womb they can not only hear musical tones, but usually respond to them by speeding up their heartbeat. The phenomenon may be observed as long as three months before the baby...
...that too much noise causes fatigue, irritability, even loss of sexual desire, nobody is yet certain of the effects of the drone of decibels that 20th century Americans have come to accept as normal. "Ears are not damaged by the normal sounds of life," says Newman. But some disagree. Audiologist Moe Bergman, director of the Speech and Hearing Center at Manhattan's Hunter College, studied a group of African tribesmen who never heard any outside noises but jungle sounds, compared his findings with a study of a group of Angelenos who worked in relatively quiet areas (no loud industrial...