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Hearing Happiness - Deafness Cures in History (Hardcover)
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Hearing Happiness - Deafness Cures in History (Hardcover)
Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
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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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