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dr jaipreet virdi historian of medicine technology and disability skip to content home about writing speaking media kit enduring endo contact dr jaipreet virdi an award winning historian whose research focuses on the ways medicine and technology impact the lived experiences of disabled people born in kuwait to sikh parents dr virdi lost her hearing at age four to bacterial meningitis by age six her working class family immigrated to toronto ontario where she would later attend a school for deaf and hard of hearing children a product of mainstreamed education dr virdi learned to communicate through lip reading and her hearing aids years of navigation within deaf hearing spaces along with working in retail marketing and fashion merchandising have influenced how she analyzes people s relationships with their technologies her experiences with stage iv endometriosis and ovarian cancer have also shaped her advocacy for accessible healthcare dr virdi is an organization of american historians oah distinguished lecturer learn more writer and author over the counter hearing aids eugenic fitness disabled design audiometry endometriosis these are some of the topics dr virdi has written for in public and academic publications her essays have appeared in the atlantic psyche new internationalist bitch media the washington post and more she has book chapters in multiple international edited collections and aims to disseminate her work as widely as possible international speaker dr virdi s writing and public speaking style is an ingenious blend of narrative that weaves archive research with material culture lyrical history and personal memoir adhering to the notion a historian s responsibility is to disseminate collective histories as broadly as possible dr virdi shares her own experiences of deafness endometriosis ovarian cancer to clarify medical and disability contexts and to advocate for accessible healthcare and technology more than one billion people live with hearing loss making deafness one of the most common disabilities in the world despite the size of deaf communities and their rich cultural histories in the western world deafness is perceived primarily as a medical problem requiring a fix in nineteenth century britain the shift from viewing deafness as auditory difference to framing it as a condition in need of medical intervention came at the insistence of an emerging group of professionals aurists echoes of care describes how british ear specialists sought to reshape deafness as a curable affliction that they were uniquely able to treat navigating a medical landscape fraught with professional rivalries and public distrust about the likelihood of a cure aurists extended their authority towards key sites of intervention the census school medical testing public health deaf schools to argue for the necessity of specialist care beneath the surface of these claims lay deeper questions about access to healthcare cultural perceptions of disability and the rise of eugenics jaipreet virdi explores the complex legacy of the medicalization of deafness and its profound implications for deaf history culture and lived experience buy your copy here mcgill queen s university press indigo books bookshop weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir virdi powerfully examines society s and her own perception of life as a deaf person in america at the age of four jaipreet virdi s world went silent a severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf suddenly treated differently by everyone her deafness downplayed by society and doctors she struggled to pass as hearing for most of her life countless cures treatments and technologies led to dead ends never quite deaf enough for the deaf community or quite hearing enough for the normal majority virdi was stuck in aural limbo for years it wasn t until her thirties exasperated by problems with new digital hearing aids that she began to actively assert her deafness and reexamine society s and her own perception of life as a deaf person in america read dr virdi s first book available wherever books are sold awards 2022 american association for the history of medicine welch medal 2021 british society for the history of science hughes prize recent news view all news update news digest read black bars white text watch in conversation with katie booth read let s use bold beautiful hearing aids to celebrate deafness follow along on instagram search search get new content delivered directly to your inbox subscribe to receive updates about publications speaking events and more type your email subscribe designed with wordpress com subscribe subscribed dr jaipreet virdi join 280 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy dr jaipreet virdi subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar