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Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain

Contributor(s): Virdi, Jaipreet (Author)

ISBN: 9780228023654

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

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Pub Date: February 11, 2025

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.00" L x 6.40" W ( 1.05 lbs) 330 pages

Series: McGill-Queen's/Ams Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

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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.

Brief description: Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability. She lives in Newark, Delaware.

Review Quotes: "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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