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Jaipreet Virdi

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Dr. Jaipreet Virdi is a historian whose research focuses on the ways medicine and technology impact the lived experiences of disabled people. She has written on topics relating to diagnostic technologies, audiometry, hearing aids, and the medicalization of deafness and has published essays in The Atlantic and The New Internationalist. As an educator, Virdi has taught at Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, and Brock University; she is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware.

Born in Kuwait to Sikh parents, 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 ...more

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	Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong (Editor), Maria Town (Contributor), John Lee Clark (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History 3.83 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, interventions, legacies by Iain Hutchison (Editor), Jaipreet Virdi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Martin Atherton (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain (McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Book 65) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power by Jaipreet Virdi (Goodreads Author), Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (Editor), Jaipreet Virdi (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Osiris, Volume 39: Disability and the History of Science (Volume 39) by Jaipreet Virdi (Goodreads Author) (editor), Mara Mills (Editor), Sarah F. Rose (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power by Jenifer L. Barclay (Editor), Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (Editor), Jaipreet Virdi (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Biomedical Visions: Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice by Elizabeth Hughes (Editor), Cornelius Borck (Other), Alfred Freeborn (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars