Disability in local and global worlds / edited by Benedicte Ingstad and Susan Reynolds Whyte.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Index.