His books include Transforming Womenâs Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994), Farm to Factory: Womenâs Letters, 1830â1860 (1981), and Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826â1860 (1979).
Things that cause hearing loss (and tinnitus) include loud noise, medications that damage the nerves in the ear (ototoxic drugs), impacted earwax, middle ear problems (such as infections and vascular tumors), and aging.
Tinnitus is usually static noise in the auditory system that is associated with loss of sound from the external environment. Therefore, tinnitus is common and in most, but not all, cases it is associated with some degree of hearing loss. The most common causes of tinnitus are damage to the high frequency hearing by exposure to loud noise or elevated levels of common drugs that can be toxic to the inner ear in high doses.