How do mental illnesses sound? What are the stakes of using machines to render the signs of psychiatric suffering audible? These questions drive the teams of psychiatric and engineering professionals I study. They also animate my own ethnographic inquiries into listening as a gendered, racialized form of labor and care, and the politics of framing mental health care in the …
The Body Audible: From Vocal Biomarkers to a Phrenology of the Throat
This article is part of the series: Reworking the Cognitive Bias
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico