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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loh, Yui Leh Timothy
Other Authors: Helmreich, Stefan
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147236
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7551-0350