Eradicating deafness?
Genetics, pathology, and diversity in twentieth-century America
Is deafness a disability to be prevented or the uniting trait of a cultural community to be preserved? Combining the history of eugenics and genetics with deaf and disability history, this book traces how American heredity researchers moved from trying to eradicate deafness to embracing it as a valuable cultural diversity. It looks at how deafness came to be seen as a hereditary phenomenon at all, how eugenics became part of progressive reform at schools for the deaf, and how, from the 1950s on, more sociocultural approaches to disability and minority led to new cooperative projects between professionals and local signing deaf communities. An…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3819-4
- EAN: 9781526138194
- Produktnummer: 33864036
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 848 KB
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Marion Andrea Schmidt is a research associate at the Institute for the Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen
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