Disability in Local and Global Worlds

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Disability in Local and Global Worlds

Author	: Benedicte Ingstad
File Size	: 47,7 Mb
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 June 2007
ISBN	: 9780520246171
Pages	: 336 pages

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Disability in Local and Global Worlds by Benedicte Ingstad Book PDF Summary

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.

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