Surgical consent
Subtitle: bioethics and cochlear implantation
By: Linda Komesaroff, editor.
Contributors: Komesaroff, Linda R.
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781563683497
Subjects: Cochlear implants -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Deaf -- Rehabilitation -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Deaf children -- Rehabilitation -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Cochlear Implantation -- ethics.; Cochlear Implantation -- psychology.; Deafness -- psychology.; Deafness -- surgery.; Disabled Children -- psychology.; Hearing Impaired Persons -- psychology.; Parental Consent -- ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Cochlear implantation, colonialism, and deaf rights / Paddy Ladd; Consent to surgery for deaf children: making informed decisions / Priscilla Alderson; Ethnicity, ethics, and the deaf-world / Harlan Lane; Parents, children, and medical treatment: legal rights and responsibilities / Eithne Mills; Media representation and cochlear implantation / Linda Komesaroff; The psychosocial development of deaf children with cochlear implants / Gunilla Preisler; Cochlear-implanted children in sweden's bilingual schools: making it work / Kristina Svartholm; A study of Norwegian deaf and hard of hearing children: equality in communication inside and outside family life / Hilde Haualand and Inger Lise Skog Hansen; Freedom of speech for deaf people / Paal Richard Peterson; Deaf Australians and the cochlear implant: reporting from ground level / Karen Lloyd and Michael Uniacke.