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Title Genetics, disability, and deafness / John Vickrey van Cleve, editor
Published Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2004

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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
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Deafness -- Genetic aspects -- Congresses
Ear.
Bioethics.
Persons With Hearing Impairments
Deafness
Deafness -- genetics
Bioethical Issues
Deafness -- ethnology
Ear
Bioethics
SCIENCE / General
Bioethics
Deafness -- Genetic aspects
Ear
Doofheid.
Aangeboren afwijkingen.
Audiologia.
Genética.
Perda auditiva.
Genre/Form essays.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Essays
Essays.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Van Cleve, John V.
LC no. 2004053314
ISBN 1563682796
9781563682797