Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children

Bringing together medical and linguistic anthropology, I examine the provision of hearing technology, such as cochlear implants, to deaf Jordanian children, a project animated by an imperative to make deaf children speak. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork at a cochlear implantation initiative and...

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Main Author: Loh, Timothy Y.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society
Format: Article
Published: Informa UK Limited 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139628