Disability in local and global worlds
By: edited by Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte.
Contributors: Ingstad, Benedicte.; Whyte, Susan Reynolds.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780520246164; 9780520246171
Subjects: People with disabilities.; People with disabilities -- Social conditions.; People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: disability connections / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Benedicte Ingstad; title: Locating embodied identities; title: The two-week village: the significance of sacred occasions for the deaf community / Hilde Haualand; title: From "complete" to "impaired" body: female circumcision in Somalia and London / Aud Talle; title: Reproductively disabled lives: infertility, stigma, and suffering in Egypt and India / Marcia C. Inhorn and Aditya Bharadwaj; title: The chosen body and the rejection of disability in Israeli society / Meira Weiss; title: Disability and domestic citizenship: voice, gender, and the making of the subject / Veena Das and Renu Addlakha; title: Dombø's spirit kidney: transplant medicine and Suyø Indian cosmology / Nancy Scheper/Hughes and Mariana Leal Ferreira; title: Localizing policy and technology; title: Genomics, laissez-faire eugenics, and disability / Margaret Lock; title: Why am I not disabled? Making state subjects, making statistics in post-Mao China / Matthew Kohrman; title: Seeing disability and human rights in the local context: Botswana revisited / Benedicte Ingstad; title: Moral discourse and old-age disability in Japan / John W. Traphagan; title: Wheels and new legs: mobilization in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Herbert Muyinda; title: Index.