Whose deaf genes are they anyway?: The deaf community's challenge to legislation on embryo selection

Sign Language Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-169

  Emery, Steven D ^a   Middleton, Anna ^a   Turner, Graham H ^a  

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EID: 70449091352     PISSN: 03021475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sls.0.0037     Document Type: Article

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