Disability and Poverty - A Global Challenge

Informationen zum Autor Arne H. Eide is Chief Scientist at SINTEF, Professor at Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway, and Guest Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has extensive research experience in the fields of disability and rehabilitation. Benedicte Ingstad is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has carried out research on disability in developing countries for 30 years and has published extensively on the topic of disability and culture. Klappentext This book explores the lived realities of people with disabilities from across the developing world and examines how the coping strategies of individuals and families emerge in different contexts. Zusammenfassung Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the lived realities of people with disabilities from across the developing world and examines how the coping strategies of individuals and families emerge in different contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Arne H. Eide, Arne H. (EDT)/ Ingstad Eide
• Assisted by: Arne Eide (Editor), Arne H. Eide (Editor), Benedicte Ingstad (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2011
• EAN: 9781847428851
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-885-1
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)