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Disability in Local and Global Worlds
B Ingstad
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Description for Disability in Local and Global Worlds
Paperback. Explores the global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a range of local contexts. This book reports on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, India, and Japan. It addresses the definition of human rights in local contexts. Editor(s): Ingstad, Benedicte; Whyte, Susan Reynolds. Num Pages: 334 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHMP; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520246171
SKU
V9780520246171
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About B Ingstad
Benedicte Ingstad is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of General Practice and Community Medicine at the University of Oslo. She is author of Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled. Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty ... Read more
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