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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	April 2021
Genre:	Naturwissensch., Medizin, Technik
	Audiology & otology / Communication Studies / EDUCATION / Inclusive Education / EDUCATION / Special Education / Physical Disabilities / Ethical issues & debates / HISTORY / Social History / History of Science / Impact of science & technology on society / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language / MEDICAL / Audiology & Speech Pathology / SCIENCE / History / Science Funding & Policy / Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication / Social & cultural history / SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities / Teaching of hearing-impaired students / Teaching of students with physical impairment or disability
ISBN:	9781913348403
EAN-Code:	9781913348403
Verlag:	Scribe Publications
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 163 mm / B 241 mm / D 39 mm
Gewicht:	648 gr
Seiten:	416
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Inhalt:

A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and powerful enemy of the deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few people know that it was inspired by another supposed miracle: his work teaching the deaf to speak. The son of one deaf woman and husband to another, he was motivated by a desire to empower deaf people by integrating them into the hearing world, but he ended up becoming their most powerful enemy, waging a war against sign language and deaf culture that still rages today. The Invention of Miracles tells the dual stories of Bell's remarkable, world-changing invention and his dangerous ethnocide of deaf culture and language. It also charts the rise of deaf activism and tells the triumphant tale of a community reclaiming a once-forbidden language. Katie Booth has researched this story for over a decade, poring over Bell's papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell's legacy on her deaf family set her on a path that upturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and technology.