Virdi brilliantly illustrates the fraught history of deafness "cures" throughout the centuries, showing how quack cures seamlessly blended with science, the ableism and techno-solutionism underlying these approaches, and using her own experience as a deaf person to give a personal look at the issues enmeshed with these historical developments. This book pulls triple duty, hitting the economic, scientific, and sociological implications of this history, and Virdi's writing makes this an absolute page-turner. I particularly liked the review of technology hype-driven "cures," as these examples serve as great analogues for technologies today. Highly recommend