Introduction: Anthropology in Disability Studies

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The stories of ‘snake children’: killing and abuse of children with developmental disabilities in West Africa

“…Although the construction of disability ‘otherness’ has been discussed relative to negative experiences of individuals within the Western historical or sociopolitical context (e.g. Charlton ; Grue ), this concept has rarely been investigated as it relates to cultural explanations and practices, such as in anthropological research (Kasnitz & Shuttleworth ). For example, not much is known about cultural practices relative to treatment of a specific disability.…”

“What if There's Something Wrong with Her?”‐How Biomedical Technologies Contribute to Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare

“…People assume that if experts are telling them that there is a finding, this must be because this finding matters (otherwise it would not be mentioned). What is more, because doctors and institutions lend legitimacy to GSTs by using them and charging money for them, it is reasonable that patients will trust these technologies even when the results are, in fact, useless or potentially useless data with 15 Instructively, few of these fit into ideas of normality or abnormality operative in the production and interpretation of genomic knowledge (Kasnitz and Shuttleworth 2001;Reid-Cunningham 2009). As debates over everything from deafness to neurodiversity evidence, such differing attitudes are alive and well today (Davis 2006;Mauldin 2016). respect to promoting positive health outcomes.…”

Stigma, Community, Ethnography: Joan Ablon's Contribution to the Anthropology of Impairment‐Disability

“…These medical anthropologists helped carve out space in the subdiscipline for the study of cognitive, behavioral, and physical difference and impairmentdisability. Most kept their primary focus within anthropology, which, as a discipline, is only now more widely engaging with interdisciplinary disability studies scholarship (Kasnitz and Shuttleworth 1999, 2001a, 2001b. Scheer and Groce (1988) wrote an early short review of ethnographic data on disability.…”