[In this volume, the author] reviews the ways that societies have defined disability and creates an interpretive framework for discussing the relationship between culture and disability.-Back cover.
Genetics, disability, and deafness
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand begins this wide-ranging volume with an essay that extols diversity and warns of the dangers of modifying the human genome. Nora Groce reviews the ways that societies have defined disability and creates an interpretive framework for dis…
"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 intera…