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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Carol Padden and Tom Humphries. Inside Deaf Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2005. Pp. 208. $22.95.

Carol Padden and Tom Humphries have done it again—and readers everywhere should be grateful. Almost twenty years ago, Padden and Humphries helped transform the nascent and promising field of deaf history with their path-breaking and still relevant book, Deaf in America: Voices From a Culture (1988). Their influential work challenged the medical-based paradigm that for much of the preceding century had been employed by hearing professionals and scholars to reduce deafness to little more than a troubling medical ailment or lifelong auditory deficiency. In contrast, they demonstrated that the nation's deaf citizens, by virtue of their shared language (American Sign Language or ASL), education, and experiences, were best understood as a unique, active, and vibrant culture. Through this integrative lens, the authors sketched the "arc of dialogue" (p. 4) that defined and animated the dispersed but coherent national deaf community.

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