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  • Hearing Happiness

    Deafness Cures in History

    de Jaipreet Virdi ...
    Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society's—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to "pass" as hearing for most of her ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Cripping the Archive

    Disability, History, and Power

    Edición de Jenifer L. Barclay, Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy ...
    Series series Disability Histories
    How do we explain the conspicuous absence of disability from the histories we write? What forces and factors create this dynamic? How can disability be everywhere and nowhere, present and absent, and obvious and overlooked in both the historical record and historians’ interpretations of the past?Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy edit a collection of interdisciplinary essays that ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Disability and the Victorians

    Attitudes, interventions, legacies

    Edición de Iain Hutchison, Martin Atherton, Jaipreet Virdi ...
    Series series Disability History
    Disability and the Victorians brings together in one collection a range of topics, perspectives and experiences from the Victorian era that present a unique overview of the development and impact of attitudes and interventions towards those with impairments during this time. The collection also considers how the legacies of these actions can be seen to have continued throughout the twentieth ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Osiris, Volume 39

    Disability and the History of Science

    Edición de Jaipreet Virdi, Mara Mills, Sarah F. Rose ...
    Series Libro 39 - Osiris
    Presents a powerful new vision of the history of science through the lens of disability studies.Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Echoes of Care

    Deafness in Modern Britain

    de Jaipreet Virdi ...
    Series Libro 65 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    More than one billion people live with hearing loss, making deafness one of the most common disabilities in the world. Despite the size of deaf communities and their rich cultural histories, in the Western world deafness is perceived primarily as a medical problem requiring a fix. In nineteenth-century Britain the shift from viewing deafness as auditory difference to framing it as a condition in ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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    Hearing Happiness

    Deafness Cures in History

    de Jaipreet Virdi ...
    Narrado por Auto-narrated ...

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    9 hora 5 minutos

    Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to “pass” as hearing for most of her ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Biomedical Visions

    Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice

    de Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, Laura Valterio, Jacob van der Beugel, Lara Keuck, Jaipreet Virdi, Nimisha Bhanot, Paula Muhr, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Stephen A. Geller, Gideon Manning, Flora Lysen, Marlene Bart, Cornelius Borck, Robert Meunier, Adam Christianson, Ariane Hanemaayer, Jan M. Friedman, Alison Elliott, Awa Naghipour, Joana Atemengue Owona, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Cat Dawson ...
    We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare persist. Life and illness play out in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological notions of health and disease. This publication brings ... Leer más

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  • The Tipping Point

    How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

    de Malcolm Gladwell ...
    From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Empire of Normality

    Neurodiversity and Capitalism

    de Robert Chapman ...
    ‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the invention of the “normal” mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly’ Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes‘Argues that a radical politics of neurodiversity is necessary, not only for neurodivergent folk, but for our collective liberation’ Professor Hel Spandler, editor, Asylum ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Knocking on Heaven's Door

    The Path to a Better Way of Death

    de Katy Butler ...
    In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way.Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and self-reliant parents when the call came: a crippling stroke had left her proud seventy-nine-year-old father unable ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

    de Sam Wineburg ...
    A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information.Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How Doctors Think

    Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine

    de Kathryn Montgomery ...
    How Doctors Think defines the nature and importance of clinical judgment. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's history along with the presenting physical signs and symptoms and juxtaposes these with clinical experience and empirical ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD