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Richard B. Davis History of Medicine Lectureship, McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska

26 April 2023
Heberden Society Lecture, Weill Cornell Medicine

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Read my essay on closed captioning and deaf protests.

Watch my conversation with Katie Booth, author of The Invention of Miracles.

Read my essay on hearing aids and design in Psyche.

Read my co-authored essay with Liz Jackson for Slate on accessible design.

New Publication: “Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands”

Praise for HEARING HAPPINESS

“Hearing Happiness is a resounding success, exploring the deep ambivalences that often arise from normalization projects and their attendant medical technologies.” – Beth Linker, Isis

“Methodologically, Hearing Happiness is path-breaking.” -Susan Burch, Social History of Medicine 

“The most striking thing about Jaipreet Virdi’s book is how it confirms that hearing loss isn’t a minor annoyance that afflicts a few people. Rather, with tremendous archival work, she shows us that, over the past three centuries, Anglo-American culture has been virtually obsessed with trying to cure deafness.” Lennard Davis, Times Higher Education

 

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