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READ: The Deafness Diet

Posted on September 16, 2020September 21, 2020 by Jai Virdi

Read an extract from Hearing Happiness in Lapham’s Quarterly, on purported hearing cures, from mail-order cons to prenatal vitamins.

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Praise for HEARING HAPPINESS

“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. The deaf person becomes the icon of the diminished citizen. The sheer number of nostrums, remedies, devices and surgeries devoted to the remedying of hearing loss is staggering. Yet the economic investment and advertising outreach are also indications of a more general insistence that deafness is a misery, that cure is a necessity and that hearing provides “happiness”.” Lennard Davis, Times Higher Education

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