Disability in Local and Global Worlds

Name: Disability in Local and Global Worlds
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ISBN: 9780520246171

ISBN-10: 0520246179

ISBN-13: 9780520246171

Edition: 2007

Authors: Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte

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The lives of many disabled people in Europe and North America have improved over the past two decades through innovative technologies and the efforts of the disability rights movement. These changes have been spreading to other societies around the globe--albeit unevenly. In this collection of essays, leading scholars explore global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a wide range of local contexts. The authors report on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, Egypt, India, and Japan. They address the definition of disability, the new eugenics, human rights in local…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Disability Connections




Locating Embodied Identities



The Two-Week Village: The Significance of Sacred Occasions for the Deaf Community




From "Complete" to "Impaired" Body: Female Circumcision in Somalia and London




Reproductively Disabled Lives: Infertility, Stigma, and Suffering in Egypt and India




The Chosen Body and the Rejection of Disability in Israeli Society




Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject




Domba's Spirit Kidney: Transplant Medicine and Suya Indian Cosmology




Localizing Policy and Technology



Genomics, Laissez-Faire Eugenics, and Disability




Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-Mao China




Seeing Disability and Human Rights in the Local Context: Botswana Revisited




Moral Discourse and Old-Age Disability in Japan




Wheels and New Legs: Mobilization in Uganda



List of Contributors


Index