Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain Volume 65 by Virdi, Jaipreet
Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain Volume 65 by Virdi, Jaipreet

Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain Volume 65

More than one billion people live with hearing loss, making deafness one of the most common disabilities...
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Author: Jaipreet Virdi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain Volume 65 by Virdi, Jaipreet

Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain Volume 65

$155.11
Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain Volume 65 by Virdi, Jaipreet

Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain Volume 65

$155.11
Author: Jaipreet Virdi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
More than one billion people live with hearing loss, making deafness one of the most common disabilities in the world. Despite the size of deaf communities and their rich cultural histories, in the Western world deafness is perceived primarily as a medical problem requiring a fix. In nineteenth-century Britain the shift from viewing deafness as auditory difference to framing it as a condition in need of medical intervention came at the insistence of an emerging group of professionals: aurists. Echoes of Care describes how British ear specialists sought to reshape deafness as a curable affliction that they were uniquely able to treat. Navigating a medical landscape fraught with professional rivalries and public distrust about the likelihood of a cure, aurists extended their authority towards key sites of intervention - the census, school medical testing, public health, deaf schools - to argue for the necessity of specialist care. Beneath the surface of these claims lay deeper questions about access to healthcare, cultural perceptions of disability, and the rise of eugenics. Jaipreet Virdi explores the complex legacy of the medicalization of deafness and its profound implications for deaf history, culture, and lived experience.

Author: Jaipreet Virdi
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780228023654

About the Author
Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability.
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