Stigma, community, ethnography: Joan Ablon's contribution to the anthropology of impairment-disability

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-161

  Shuttleworth, Russell P ^a   Kasnitz, Devva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablon; Disability; Ethnography; Genetics; Impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABLED PERSON; HISTORY; HUMAN; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DISABLED PERSONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 4644229974     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2004.18.2.139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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