Van Cleve, who taught history at Gallaudet U. (Washington, DC), the only liberal arts college for the deaf and hard of hearing, introduces nine illustrated essays that challenge stereotypes by former
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
In 13 papers from a 2003 conference at Gallaudet University, contributors from various biological sciences and humanities explore the many ways that disability, deafness, and the new genetics can inte
Emphasizing the sense of community that deafness fosters, rather than its less positive aspects, this text focuses on the development of the American deaf community during the nineteenth century
Greenwald and Van Cleve (history, Gallaudet U.) present 12 articles that tell the history of Gallaudet U., based on papers given at the conference, "150 Years on Kendall Green: Celebrating Deaf Histor
