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. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Informa UK Limited, 2022-01-19T20:41:55Z.
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