Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World

Autor/in	Lane, Harlan
Titel	Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World
Quelle	In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 10 (2005) 3, S.291-320 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-4159
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Deafness; Sign Language; Language Minorities; Ethnic Groups; Social Bias; Cultural Awareness; Social Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Gebärdensprache; Sprachminderheit; Ethnie; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	This article is concerned with ethical aspects of the relations between language minorities using signed languages (called the Deaf-World) and the larger societies that engulf them. The article aims to show that such minorities have the properties of ethnic groups, and that an unsuitable construction of the Deaf-World as a disability group has led to programs of the majority that discourage Deaf children from acquiring the language and culture of the Deaf-World and that aim to reduce the number of Deaf births--programs that are unethical from an ethnic group perspective. Four reasons not to construe the Deaf-World as a disability group are advanced: Deaf people themselves do not believe they have a disability; the disability construction brings with it needless medical and surgical risks for the Deaf child; it also endangers the future of the Deaf-World; finally, the disability construction brings bad solutions to real problems because it is predicated on a misunderstanding. (Author).
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