The Artificial Ear : : Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness / / Stuart Blume.
When it was first developed, the cochlear implant was hailed as a "miracle cure" for deafness. That relatively few deaf adults seemed to want it was puzzling. The technology was then modified for use with deaf children, 90 percent of whom have hearing parents. Then, controversy struck as t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Promise of New Medical Technology
- Chapter 2. The Making of the Cochlear Implant
- Chapter 3. The Cochlear Implant and the Deaf Community
- Chapter 4. The Globalization of a Controversial Technology
- Chapter 5. Implantation Politics in the Netherlands
- Chapter 6. Contexts of Uncertainty: Parental Decision Making
- Chapter 7. Politics and Medical Progress
- Notes
- Index