cover image Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community

Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community

Harlan Lane. Vintage Books USA, $14 (310pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73614-1

``Audism'' is the term that psychology professor Lane, who is not deaf, uses in this forceful indictment of what he calls ``the hearing establishment,'' which he portrays as a colonial power overseeing the needs of deaf subjects. (Sept.)