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<p><P>With the rate of cochlear implantation reaching 80% to 90% of all deaf children, some as young as five months old, <i>Surgical Consent&#58; Bioethics and Cochlear Implantation</i> arrives at a critical juncture. This comprehensive collection features essays by Priscilla Alderson, Inger Lise Skog Hansen, Hilde Haualand, volume editor Linda Komesaroff, Paddy Ladd, Harlan Lane, Karen Lloyd, Eithne Mills, Paal Richard Peterson, Gunilla Preisler, Kristina Svartholm, and Michael Uniacke. These worldwide renowned ethicists, educators, and Deaf leaders express their diverse perspectives on the bioethics of childhood cochlear implantation according to their discipline and a number of themes of inquiry&#58; human rights, medical and social ethics, psychology, education, globalization, identity, life pathways, democracy, media, law, and biotechnology.<br> <br> Drawing on current research, this volume presents the varying reactions around the globe to the high rate of implantation. These views contrast sharply with the medical perspective of deafness overwhelmingly promoted through the media and by the cochlear implantation industry. At the same time, the contributors aim to disrupt the

Author

Komesaroff, Linda R.

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781563683497

Subjects

Business, Philosophy, Science