Sensory futures deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India

"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 th...

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Other Authors: Friedner, Michele Ilana, 1978- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press [2022]
Edition:First edition
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009662682706719
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (281 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781452967202
9781452967196
Access:Open Access