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Silence of the spheres : the deaf experience in the history of science

Title: Silence of the spheres : the deaf experience in the history of science / Harry G. Lang.
Author: Lang, Harry G.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1994.

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Description

xxxiv, 187 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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Contents

Learning from History. The Deaf Scientist: Defining the Realities. Deafness: A Diversity of Experiences -- 1. The Enlightenment and the Rise of Scientific Societies. France and the Royal Academy of Sciences. England and the Royal Society. The Education of John Goodricke. Deaf Naturalists in Eighteenth-Century England. Deaf Members of Other Societies. America's Early Societies and the Education of Deaf Children -- 2. The Nineteenth Century: Opportunities and Oppression. Education in the New World. Early Deaf American Scientists. The Deaf Physician and the Barrier of Attitudes. The Fossil Hunters and the Darwinian Revolution. The Establishment of Gallaudet College. Breakthroughs in European Higher Education. Deaf Women: The Struggle for Access. Electrical Science: A Promise of Communication. Emerging Professions -- 3. Attitudes and Activism at the Turn of the Century. The Eugenics Debacle. Racism and Prejudice. The War of Methods -- 4. The Twentieth Century: The First Fifty Years.
Technical and Vocational Education: An Unfulfilled Need. The First World War and the Growth of Industry. The Years Between World Wars. The Second World War -- 5. The Modern Era: Revolutions and Breakthroughs. The Barriers Continue. Technological Change and the Issue of Access. Federal Legislation and the Removal of Barriers. New Political Voice: The Gallaudet University Protest of 1988. The Enigma of Attitudes. Recommendations.

ISBN

0897893689 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93020838

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Columbia University Libraries