Disability in local and global worlds / edited by Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte.
Contributor(s): Ingstad, Benedicte
| Whyte, Susan Reynolds.
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BookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007Description: ix, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780520246164 (alk. paper); 9780520246171 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): People with disabilities | People with disabilities -- Social conditions | People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studiesOnline resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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