Volume 38, Number 6 · March 28, 1991
The Language of the Deaf
By David M. Perlmutter
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
by Oliver Sacks
HarperCollins, 186 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Calling deafness 'one of the most desperate of human calamities,' Dr. Johnson was expressing the classic 'pathological' view of deafness: it is a physical defect. Unable to hear or speak, the deaf are usually thought to be cut off from language, and therefore from social life and from the knowledge and culture transmitted from previous generations.
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