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Posted on November 11, 2022 by Jai Virdi

A long overdue update on Jai’s recent essays and interviews.

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NEWS DIGEST

Posted on January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 by Jai Virdi

An update on Jai's recent talks, book reviews, and news.

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Book Update

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

14 April 2023
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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