Disability and Culture

Bys: Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte

Book Overview

Spurred by the United Nation's International Decade for Disabled Persons and medical anthropology's coming of age, anthropologists have recently begun to explore the effects of culture on the lives of the mentally and physically impaired. This major collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers for the first time a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. Using research undertaken in a wide variety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520083628
• ISBN13: 9780520083622
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Introduction to Disability and Culture

Published in 1995 this collection was on the edge of the disability studies movement. Though later text may have surpassed this early edition it is invaluable for it's "medical anthropology" approach to viewing aspects of disability. It contributes to the growing body of literature that examines disability as a socio-political construction rather than just a medical condition.