Böcker av Michael Schillmeier

Hearing, health and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. The edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations.

Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted 'cosmos' of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected. Using rich qualitative and ethnographic data alongside print and on-line media sources.

Offers book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This book is useful to practicing social service workers and readers in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.