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Disability in local and global worlds

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Introduction: disability connections / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Benedicte Ingstad
Locating embodied identities
The two-week village: the significance of sacred occasions for the deaf community / Hilde Haualand
From "complete" to "impaired" body: female circumcision in Somalia and London / Aud Talle
Reproductively disabled lives: infertility, stigma, and suffering in Egypt and India / Marcia C. Inhorn and Aditya Bharadwaj
The chosen body and the rejection of disability in Israeli society / Meira Weiss
Disability and domestic citizenship: voice, gender, and the making of the subject / Veena Das and Renu Addlakha
Dombø's spirit kidney: transplant medicine and Suyø Indian cosmology / Nancy Scheper/Hughes and Mariana Leal Ferreira
Localizing policy and technology
Genomics, laissez-faire eugenics, and disability / Margaret Lock
Why am I not disabled? Making state subjects, making statistics in post-Mao China / Matthew Kohrman
Seeing disability and human rights in the local context: Botswana revisited / Benedicte Ingstad
Moral discourse and old-age disability in Japan / John W. Traphagan
Wheels and new legs: mobilization in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Herbert Muyinda
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