The deaf experience. Classics in language and education

Santander does not speculate on the reason for these patterns of student membership; in a useful introduction to the dictionary, she describes the form and purpose of the registers she has used, and fills in background details of the medical curriculum and the organization of the faculty. But despite its very real achievements, a historian may well regret that Escolares medicos never goes beyond description, never looks behind the facts that it lays out so neatly, or explores the significance of the details that Dr Santander's careful research has exposed for us. It is, in the end, the work of an archivist after all.