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Meet the Author - Book Chapters

Book chapters for the meet the author sessions during the GSWS Conference: "Doing the Body in the 21st Century."

Meet the Author

 Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising a Deaf Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)

Laura Mauldin is an assistant professor in sociology at the University of Connecticut.

"My first book...is based on an ethnography of a cochlear implant (CI) clinic and examines the use of CIs in deaf children, the role of neuroscience in the culture of intervention around deafness, and how mothers are expected to adopt CIs for their deaf child." - Faculty Profile, 1/26/16

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