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a| Rethinking Disability: b| The Emergence of New Definitions, Concepts and Communities

a| Antwerp b| Garant c| 2003

a| 210 pages

a| This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of the interface between disability & culture. Twelve papers discuss the following topics: Towards a cultural model of disability. Disability Values, Representations & Realities. Labeling in the Name of Equality: Political & Social Realities in the Schooling of Disabled Students. Understanding Disabilities-the Emergence of Our Understanding of Sameness. Can Disability Be Thought of in Terms of Difference? The Disability Studies Paradigm. Examining the Fit Between Deafness & Disability. Winks, Blinks, Squints & Twitches-Looking for Disability & Culture Through My Son's Left Eye. The Common Agenda of Aging & Disabilities-Stalemate or Progress. From "Idiot" to "Person with Mental Retardation"-Defining Difference in an Effort to Dissolve It. Virtual Support Groups-An Ethnographic Interpretation.Patrick Devlieger is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois' Department of Disability, as well as Associate Professor at the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Leuven (Belgium).

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a| Devlieger, Patrick 4| edt 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q92177704 9| 25985

a| Rusch, Frank R. 4| edt 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16251814 9| 25986

a| Pfeiffer, David 4| edt 9| 25987 d| 1934-

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