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Genetics, disability, and deafness /
"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 thei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Gallaudet University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.