Dear all:
I would like to announce the publication of my new book, Made to Hear. There is a discount code available for ordering directly with the publisher, it is also available on Amazon.
Thank you!
Laura Mauldin, PhD, NIC
www.lauramauldin.com
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Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:09 PM
Subject: Made to Hear by Laura Mauldin
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SPECIAL OFFER
The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
Made to Hear
Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Laura Mauldin
University of Minnesota Press | 232 pages | 5 b&w photos | 1 table | 2016
ISBN 978-0-8166-9725-0 | paper | $17.50 (reg. price: $25.00)
ISBN 978-0-8166-9724-3 | cloth | $66.00 (reg. price: $87.50)
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A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. Made to Hear sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.
Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the cochlear implant for their deaf children, this book describes the experiences of mothers as they navigate the health care system, their interactions with the professionals who work with them, and the influence of neuroscience on the process. Though Mauldin explains the politics surrounding the issue, her focus is not on the controversy of whether to have a cochlear implant but on the long-term, multiyear undertaking of implantation. Her study provides a nuanced view of a social context in which science, technology, and medicine are trusted to vanquish disability—and in which mothers are expected to use these tools. Made to Hear reveals that implantation has the central goal of controlling the development of the deaf child’s brain by boosting synapses for spoken language and inhibiting those for sign language, placing the politics of neuroscience front and center.
Examining the consequences of cochlear implant technology for professionals and parents of deaf children, Made to Hear shows how certain neuroscientific claims about neuroplasticity, deafness, and language are deployed to encourage compliance with medical technology.
"A superb account of how a controversial technology becomes normalized patient by patient. While following families from newborn screening to post-Cochlear implant, Laura Mauldin shows that little of the political turmoil related to this medical technology is salient for the parents faced with a child with hearing loss."
—Stefan Timmermans, University of California, Los Angeles
More about the book:
http://z.umn.edu/1369
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