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Hearing Happiness
- Deafness Cures in History
Engelsk Hardback
Hearing Happiness
- Deafness Cures in History
Engelsk Hardback

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At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to "pass" as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and technologies led to dead ends. Never quite deaf enough for the Deaf community or quite hearing enough for the "normal" majority, Virdi was stuck in aural limbo for years. It wasn't until her thirties, exasperated by problems with new digital hearing aids, that she began to actively assert her deafness and reexamine society's--and her own--perception of life as a deaf person in America. Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Taking us from the 1860s up to the present, Virdi combs archives and museums in order to understand the long history of curious cures: hearing trumpets, violet-ray apparatuses, pneumomassages, electrotherapy machines, airplane diving, bloodletting, skull hammering, and many more. Hundreds of procedures and products have promised grand miracles but always failed to deliver--a legacy that is still present in contemporary biomedicine. Weaving Virdi's own experiences together with her exploration into the fascinating history of deafness cures, Hearing Happiness is a powerful story that America needs to hear.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
328
ISBN-13:
9780226690612
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022669061X
Udg. Dato:
31 aug 2020
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
31 aug 2020
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