This is the third edition of the foremost medical reference on hereditary hearing loss. Chapters on epidemiology, embryology, non-syndromic hearing loss, and syndromic forms of hearing loss have all been updated with particular attention to the vast amount of new information on …
[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…
"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…
This 10th edition delivers the latest information on treating conditions involving the head and neck, such as sinusitis, sensory disorders, cancer, and sleep disorders. The second edition features a more streamlined presentation, with chapters consisting of bulleted lists, conci…