Marion Andrea Schmidt

Eradicating deafness?

Genetics, pathology, and diversity in twentieth-century America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9781526138170
• ISBN-10: 1526138174
• Artikelnr.: 57477095

Autorenporträt

Marion Andrea Schmidt is a Research Associate at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: of races and genocides 1 The sciences of deafness: deaf
people as objects of research, reform, and eugenics, 1900-1940 2 Concerned
and puzzled: heredity research and counselling at the Clarke School,
1930-1960 3 Minorities and pathologies: psychogenetic counselling at the
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1955-1969 4 Preventing tragedy,
negotiating normalcy: the changing meaning of Usher syndrome 1960-1980 5
Signing risk and chance: collaborating for culturally sensitive
counselling, 1970-1990 Conclusion: from Bell to biodiversity Bibliography
Index