Why am I not disabled? Making state subjects, making statistics in post-mao China

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-24

  Kohrman, Matthew ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopower; China; Disability; Epidemiology; Identity

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DISABILITY; ETHICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POLITICS; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; HEALTH SURVEY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CHINA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POLITICS;

EID: 0038688424     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2003.17.1.5     Document Type: Review

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