Genetics, disability, and deafness /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Gallaudet University Press,
2004.
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| ISBN: | 1563682796 9781563682797 |
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Table of 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.