Eradicating deafness? : Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America

Name: Eradicating deafness?
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526138170
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ISBN: 9781526138170

by Marion Andrea Schmidt

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Format Hardback

Book Series Disability History

ISBN-10 1526138174

ISBN-13 9781526138170

Publisher Manchester University Press

Imprint Manchester University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 22nd, 2020

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 404 grams

Dimensions 14.70 x 22.30 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Disability: social aspects Disability: social aspects History of medicine History

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How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .

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. Analysing the transformative effects of exchange between researchers and objects of research, this book offers new insight to changing ideas about medical ethics, reproductive rights, the meaning of scientific progress and cultural diversity.

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