Disability and culture
By: edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte.
Contributors: Ingstad, Benedicte.; Whyte, Susan Reynolds.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studies
Description: This collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. It explores the significance of mental, sensory and motor impairments in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about humanity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.