CultureCivil RightsThird-Party ConsentThe use of cochlear implants in born-deaf infants addresses the issues of disability, proxy consent, and potential ethnocide of the Deaf culture. The ethical issues explored in this paper are: 1) the disability versus trait argument of deafness, 2) parents ...
Measuring not only the hearing-performance benefit of implantable hearing devices but also their impact on the individual’s everyday life (i.e., their quality of life) is, therefore, important. The WHO defines quality of life as an individual’s perception of their position in life in the ...
Impact of dental devices on cochlear implants. A cochlear implant (CI) converts mechanical sound energy into electrical signals that can be delivered to the cochlear nerve of profoundly deaf patients. T... S Roberts,LA West,FR Liewehr,... - 《Journal of Endodontics》 被引量: 17发表: 2002...
Because the limited number of electrodes in the implant can’t compare to the thousands of hearing hair cells that previously performed the same function, it’s impossible to exactly replicate sounds. The sound processor focuses first on optimizing the frequencies required to understand speech. But ...
Cochlear implants are medical devices that help previously deaf individuals gain or regain partial hearing. Many medical professionals consider them an essential component of treating deafness. Members of the Deaf community, however, consider the implants tobe a direct assault on their carefully nurtured...
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Potential of cyborg technology for people with disabilities; Limitation of cyborg; Controversy over cochlear implants; Background on the deaf culture.CherneyJames L.Argumentation & AdvocacyJames L. Cherney. 1999. Deaf culture and the cochlear implant debate: Cyborg politics and the identity of people...
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