| Contents |
Part 1. Science, culture, and human variation -- The science of human nature and the human nature of science / Louis Menand -- The cultural context of disability / Nora Grace -- Part 2. Deafness and genetics : a troubled past -- The real "toll" of A.G. Bell : lessons about eugenics / Brian H. Greenwald -- "True love and sympathy" : the deaf-deaf marriages debate in transatlantic perspectives / Joseph J. Murray -- Deafness and eugenics in the Nazi era / John S. Schuchman -- Part 3. The science of genetic deafness -- The complexity of hearing loss from a genetics perspective / Orit Dagan and Karen B. Avaham -- The epidemiology of hereditary deafness : the impact of Connexion 26 on the size and structure of the deaf community / Walter E. Nance -- Part 4. The uses of genetic knowledge -- Genes for deafness and the genetics program at Gallaudet University Kathleen S. Amos and Arti Pandya -- Deaf and hearing adults' attitudes toward genetic testing for deafness / Anna Middleton -- Negotiating (genetic) deafness in a Bedouin community / Shifra Kisch -- Not this pig : dignity, imagination, and informed consent / Mark Willis -- Part 5. An era defined by genomics -- Frankenstein, Gattaca, and the quest for perfection / Christopher Krentz -- Disability, democracy, and the new genetics / Michael Berube. |
