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Posted on March 20, 2020July 27, 2020 by Jai Virdi

A stuffed doll dressed as a ballerina and wearing a hearing aid is placed next to a yellow book with the title Hearing Happiness. On the doll's lap is a golden 1950s hearing aid.

An update on the publication date for Hearing Happiness.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

‘The Usual HEARzone’
Waring Historical Library
Wednesday October 7, 6pm EST (Virtual)

P&P Live! Jai Virdi in conversation with Liz Jackson
Politics & Prose Bookstore
Sunday October 18, 3pm EST (Virtual)

“Hearing Happiness”
History of Science Colloquium, University of Oklahoma
Friday October 22, 3:30pm EST (Virtual)

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Lady Science reviews Hearing Happiness and a bonus, listen to my podcast interview with them.

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Read an extract from Hearing Happiness on Lapham’s Quarterly.

Praise for HEARING HAPPINESS

“In her insightful book “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History,” Virdi probes how society perceives deafness and challenges the idea that a disability is a deficit. Instead, she views deafness and other disabilities as differences that come with the individual’s responsibility for participation, and society often makes such participation difficult.” –Anna Leahy, Washington Post.

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