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Paperback / softback. New. Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society's-and her own-perception of life as a deaf person in America. 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…
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Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History Paperback - 2022
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- Title Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
- Author Jaipreet Virdi
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2022-11-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780226824062 / 0226824063
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.77 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.96 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.42
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