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Disability in local and global worlds

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Disability in local and global worlds / edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Ingstad, Benedicte.
  • Whyte, Susan Reynolds.
Description
ix, 324 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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
JFE 07-5596
ISBN
  • 9780520246164 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520246160 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520246171 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520246179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007006678
OCLC
85162085
Title
Disability in local and global worlds / edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Ingstad, Benedicte.
Whyte, Susan Reynolds.
Research Call Number
JFE 07-5596
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