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Anita Ghai
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Anita Ghai
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Moving away from clinical, medical or therapeutic perspectives on disability, this book explores disability in India as a social, cultural and political phenomenon, arguing that this `difference' should be accepted as a part of social diversity. It further interrogates the multiple issues of identification of the disabled and the forms of oppressio
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Abidi, Javed 132, 267, 324
able-bodied xviii, 3, 11, 17, 77, 80, 215, 217ā19, 228ā30, 234, 235, 263; identity 265; mortality 300; persons 3, 80, 213; norm of 166; society 217, 228, 234, 235, 270, see ablest society
able-ism 6, 60, 146, 206, 222
ablest society 137, 161, 236, 293
abortion 168, 169, 171ā73, 176, 177, 179, 180, 186, 188, 189, 194, 203, 244; of disabled foetus 171, 172, 177, 183, 188, 194, (see female foeticide); see and Down syndrome 174, 176, 187; of female foetuses 75, 169ā70, 188; feminists and 169, 244; forced 169, 192; grounds for 175; guilt for 174; as immoral 168, 185; individual choice in 185ā91; as intellectual impairment 177; Johri on 31; legal system and 168; legitimization of 171; Mary Jane Owen on 168; right to 167, 168, 170; an unwanted foetus 186; a womanās personal choice 180
abuse 102, 158, 160, 195, 207, 286
Acharaya Ramamurti Review Committee 116, 117
Addlakha, Renu 29, 153, 160
Adler 63
aesthetic theory of disability 238ā40, see disability, theory of
Agrawal, S. N. 132
AIDS xviii, xix, 26, 72, 115, 117, 123, 198, 217, 262, see HIV
Alert, Human Genetics 191
Alexander, C. M. 54
Alexander, John. M. 54
alms giving 53ā54, 56, 58, 59, see chari...