Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Ingstad, Benedicte.
2. Whyte, Susan Reynolds.

Description

1. ix, 324 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Disabled Persons
2. Cross-Cultural Comparison
3. Social Conditions
4. People with disabilities
5. People with disabilities > Social conditions
6. People with disabilities > Cross-cultural studies

Contents

1. 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 -- Dombá's spirit kidney: transplant medicine and Suyá 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.

Call number

1. JFE 07-5596

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Disability in local and global worlds / edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte.

Imprint

1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

Added author

1. Ingstad, Benedicte.
2. Whyte, Susan Reynolds.

LCCN

1. 2007006678

ISBN

1. 9780520246164 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0520246160 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780520246171 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0520246179 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 07-5596