Sensory futures: deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India

By:

Friedner, Michele Ilana

Publication details: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.Description: ix, 269p.: pbk.; 21cmISBN:

9781517912130

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DDC classification:

305.9082083 FRI

Summary: Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets Sensory Futures explores deaf people’s desires to create habitable worlds, grappling with their futures amid a surge in biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities biotechnological and social “cures” offer. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sensory-futures

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Includes Notes, Bibliography and Index

Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets
Sensory Futures explores deaf people’s desires to create habitable worlds, grappling with their futures amid a surge in biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities biotechnological and social “cures” offer.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sensory-futures

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