Selling the cochlear implant
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Article Title | Selling the cochlear implant |
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ERA Journal ID | 34794 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Campbell, Fiona Kumari |
Journal Title | Disability Studies Quarterly |
Journal Citation | 25 (3), pp. 1-16 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2005 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 1041-5718 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v25i3 |
Web Address (URL) | http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/588/765 |
Abstract | This article explores the power of rhetoric and representation, of marked bodies known to the hearing world as 'the Deaf,' and also an artifact branded as a cochlear implant (hereafter referred to as CI). The CI invokes a story of culture wars ostensibly about ontological disputation. The case study examines the conditions of the implant’s production, the kinds of commitments invoked in product development and the processes of bandwagoning that led to the creation of a cochlear implant black box. Argument concludes that the normalization of the cochlear implant is due not just to the obtainment of inter-organizational networks of 'relevant' social groups but was made possible through a deferment to negative ontologies of Deafness and the deployment of the inherent preferability of 'hearing' as social capital. The study concludes that technologies of cochlear implantation, by being promoted as a technology of 'treatability' in effect produce agreements and foreclose discussion on the contestability of the concepts of deafness, hearingness, aberrancy and normalcy. |
Keywords | ontology; cochlear implants, Deaf culture, rhetoric, Disability Studies, deafness,hearing, science ethics; ableism |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 441005. Social theory |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q37xv/selling-the-cochlear-implant
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