Deaf gain : raising the stakes for human diversity / H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray, editors ; foreword by Andrew Solomon ; afterword by Tove Skuttnab-Kangas.

Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this intervention into ongoing debates a...

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Contributors: Bauman, H-Dirksen L., 1964- (Editor), Murray, Joseph J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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