
Echoes of Care ? Deafness in Modern Britain
Deafness in Modern Britain
Series: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society; 65;
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Product details:
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons
- Date of Publication 28 April 2025
- ISBN 9780228023654
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 photos, 1 table 700
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Short description:
Echoes of Care chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people?s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
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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 need of medical intervention came at the insistence of an emerging group of professionals: aurists.
Echoes of Care describes how British ear specialists sought to reshape deafness as a curable affliction that they were uniquely able to treat. Navigating a medical landscape fraught with professional rivalries and public distrust about the likelihood of a cure, aurists extended their authority towards key sites of intervention ? the census, school medical testing, public health, deaf schools ? to argue for the necessity of specialist care. Beneath the surface of these claims lay deeper questions about access to healthcare, cultural perceptions of disability, and the rise of eugenics.
Jaipreet Virdi explores the complex legacy of the medicalization of deafness and its profound implications for deaf history, culture, and lived experience.
?Echoes of Care does a marvellous job of explaining why deafness was medicalized, providing an in-depth discussion of this topic for the first time.? Ruben Verwaal, Durham University
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