Dr Cann has spent her career studying how cultures understand death and dying. In her latest book, she turns the lens inward, exploring her own life as a deaf woman navigating the world through hearing aids and technology.
They also discuss Dr. Cann's new book, Augmented: Life and Death as a Cyborg. Candy invites us to see assistive technology not as a limitation, but as an expansion of what it means to be human living it.
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