9780521626620-0521626625-Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability

Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability

ISBN-13: 9780521626620
ISBN-10: 0521626625
Author: Richard Jenkins
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 262 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521626620
ISBN-10: 0521626625
Author: Richard Jenkins
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 262 pages

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Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability (ISBN-13: 9780521626620 and ISBN-10: 0521626625), written by authors Richard Jenkins, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Questions of Competence: Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.18.

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This collection argues for a new conceptualization of intellectual disability that stresses its cultural variability and social construction, and deemphasizes its medicalized, physiological nature. It is aimed at disability specialists in social anthropology, sociology, social policy, and psychology, and at the broader health/medical anthropology audience. It is novel and radical in its treatment of intellectual disability not purely as an inherent property of individuals, but also as a social phenomenon.

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