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Disability in local and global worlds

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Pages
324

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Disability in Local and Global Worlds
June 19, 2007, University of California Press
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Cover of: Disability in local and global worlds
Disability in local and global worlds
2007, University of California Press
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Cover of: Disability in local and global worlds
Disability in local and global worlds
2007, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Disability in Local and Global Worlds
Disability in Local and Global Worlds
June 19, 2007, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: disability connections / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Benedicte Ingstad
Locating embodied identities
The two-week village: the significance of sacred occasions for the deaf community / Hilde Haualand
From "complete" to "impaired" body: female circumcision in Somalia and London / Aud Talle
Reproductively disabled lives: infertility, stigma, and suffering in Egypt and India / Marcia C. Inhorn and Aditya Bharadwaj
The chosen body and the rejection of disability in Israeli society / Meira Weiss
Disability and domestic citizenship: voice, gender, and the making of the subject / Veena Das and Renu Addlakha
Dombø's spirit kidney: transplant medicine and Suyø Indian cosmology / Nancy Scheper/Hughes and Mariana Leal Ferreira
Localizing policy and technology
Genomics, laissez-faire eugenics, and disability / Margaret Lock
Why am I not disabled? Making state subjects, making statistics in post-Mao China / Matthew Kohrman
Seeing disability and human rights in the local context: Botswana revisited / Benedicte Ingstad
Moral discourse and old-age disability in Japan / John W. Traphagan
Wheels and new legs: mobilization in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Herbert Muyinda
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Berkeley
Genre
Cross-cultural studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.4
Library of Congress
HV1568 .D5687 2007, HV1568.D5687 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
324

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17852469M
Internet Archive
disabilityinloca0000unse
ISBN 13
9780520246164, 9780520246171
LCCN
2007006678
OCLC/WorldCat
85162085
Goodreads
2552604

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