Forest Books: Linda Komesaroff (Editor) Surgical Consent: Bioethics & Cochlear Implantation

This important collection draws on research and reactions around the globe to the high rate of implantation. World-renowned ethicists, educators and Deaf leaders express their diverse perspectives, according to their discipline, on the subject of the bioethics of childhood implantation. Their views touch on issues of human rights, medical and social ethics, psychology, education, globalisation, identity, democracy, medicine, law and biotechnology. They are in sharp contrast to the medical perspective of deafness often felt to dominate in implantation and in the media. However, at the same time contributors do cut across the traditional stances adopted in debates about communication, education, culture and community. Hardcover 208 pages April 2007