Sensory Futures : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India /

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"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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Main Author: Friedner, Michele Ilana, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Deaf children > India > Social conditions.
Deaf children > Government policy > India.
Cochlear implants > Social aspects > India.
Cochlear implants > Government policy > India.
Deafness > Social aspects > India.
Assimilation (Sociology) > India.
Sociology of disability > India.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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 (288 pages).
ISBN:9781452967202
Access:Open Access

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