A01=Marion Andrea Schmidt
Author_Marion Andrea Schmidt
Bioethics
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Deaf culture
Deafness
Diversity
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Eugenics
Genetic counselling
Genetics
Reproductive rights
US history
Product details
- ISBN 9781526182395
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2024
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Marion Andrea Schmidt is a Research Associate at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen
