Journal article
Disability Rites: The Cultural Shift Following Impairment
Family & community health, Vol.27(1), pp.86-93
01/2004
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200401000-00009
PMID: 14724505
Abstract
Disability is defined by a person's perception of his or her (in)ability to function with impairment. It occurs when the individual's abilities do not correspond with the demands of their environment, which leads to culturally created barriers to social function. Culture is the main context that shapes the experience of disability because culture gives meaning to the appearance and function of the body. Harrison and Kahn have used anthropological models of rites of passage and liminality to develop a model that will explain disability-related meanings within local cultures.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Disability Rites: The Cultural Shift Following Impairment
- Creators
- Tracie Harrison - The University of Texas at AustinDavid Kahn - The University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Family & community health, Vol.27(1), pp.86-93
- DOI
- 10.1097/00003727-200401000-00009
- PMID
- 14724505
- NLM abbreviation
- Fam Community Health
- ISSN
- 0160-6379
- eISSN
- 1550-5057
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2004
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984696859502771
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