Description |
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) |
Contents |
Part 1. Science, culture, and human variation -- The science of human nature and the human nature of science / Louis Menand -- The cultural context of disability / Nora Grace -- Part 2. Deafness and genetics : a troubled past -- The real "toll" of A.G. Bell : lessons about eugenics / Brian H. Greenwald -- "True love and sympathy" : the deaf-deaf marriages debate in transatlantic perspectives / Joseph J. Murray -- Deafness and eugenics in the Nazi era / John S. Schuchman -- Part 3. The science of genetic deafness -- The complexity of hearing loss from a genetics perspective / Orit Dagan and Karen B. Avaham -- The epidemiology of hereditary deafness : the impact of Connexion 26 on the size and structure of the deaf community / Walter E. Nance -- Part 4. The uses of genetic knowledge -- Genes for deafness and the genetics program at Gallaudet University Kathleen S. Amos and Arti Pandya -- Deaf and hearing adults' attitudes toward genetic testing for deafness / Anna Middleton -- Negotiating (genetic) deafness in a Bedouin community / Shifra Kisch -- Not this pig : dignity, imagination, and informed consent / Mark Willis -- Part 5. An era defined by genomics -- Frankenstein, Gattaca, and the quest for perfection / Christopher Krentz -- Disability, democracy, and the new genetics / Michael Berube |
Summary |
"Drawn form the Genetics, Disability and Deafness Conference at Gallaudet University in 2003, this trenchant volume brings together 13 essays from science and the humanities, history and the present to show the many ways that disability, deafness, and the new genetics can interact and what their interaction means for society."--Jacket |
Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Deafness -- Genetic aspects -- Congresses
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Ear.
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Bioethics.
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Persons With Hearing Impairments
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Deafness
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Deafness -- genetics
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Bioethical Issues
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Deafness -- ethnology
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Ear
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Bioethics
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SCIENCE / General
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Bioethics
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Deafness -- Genetic aspects
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Ear
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Doofheid.
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Aangeboren afwijkingen.
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Audiologia.
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Genética.
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Perda auditiva.
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Genre/Form |
essays.
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Essays
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Essays.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Essais.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Van Cleve, John V.
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LC no. |
2004053314 |
ISBN |
1563682796 |
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9781563682797 |
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