{"id":4056,"date":"2025-01-28T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:27:50","slug":"4056","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2025\/01\/28\/4056\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf futurity: designing and innovating hearing aids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Article Summary by Jaipreet Virdi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does the future of hearing aids look like once we shift our ableist conceptions of deafness as a condition to be masked with invisible devices? That deaf people should feel compelled to disguise their impairment with technologies concealable against their bodies says a lot about how deafness is stigmatized. Yet the history of hearing aids shows otherwise: fashion and style have always been celebrated to reflect the variability of deaf experience and perhaps we should reconsider how hearing aids are designed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/50\/4\/678\">Read the full article on the <em>Medical Humanities\u00a0<\/em>website<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary by Jaipreet Virdi What does the future of hearing aids look like once we shift our ableist conceptions of deafness as a condition to be masked with invisible devices? That deaf people should feel compelled to disguise their impairment with technologies concealable against their bodies says a lot about how deafness is stigmatized. 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