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BL
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984773
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b739143
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| Title & Author
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Questions of competence : : culture, classification and intellectual disability /\ edited by Richard Jenkins.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1998.
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ix, 250 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0521623030
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: 0521626625
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: 9780521623032
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: 9780521626620
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-245) and index.
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| Contents
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Culture, classification, and (in)competence / Richard Jenkins -- Mental disability in the United States: an interactionist perspective / Michael V. Angrosino -- (In)competence in America in comparative perspective / Patrick J. Devlieger -- Risk, resilience, and competence: parents with learning difficulties and their children / Tim Booth and Wendy Booth -- Constructing other selves: (in)competences and the category of learning difficulties / Charlotte Aull Davies -- Work, opportunity, and culture: (in)competence in Greece and Wales / Sylvia van Maastricht -- Slow cookers and madmen: competence of heart and head in rural Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- States and categories: indigenous models of personhood in northwest Greenland / Mark Nuttall -- Learning to become (in)competent: children in Belize speak out / Nancy Lundgren -- Towards a social model of (in)competence / Richard Jenkins.
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| Abstract
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This collection of essays examines the classification of people as competent & incompetent in the United States, England, Wales, Greece, Greenland, Uganda, & Belize. The contributors argue that it is time for a new understanding of intellectual disability.
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Learning disabled, Cross-cultural studies.
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People with mental disabilities, Cross-cultural studies.
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Handicapés mentaux, Études transculturelles.
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Personnes en difficulté d'apprentissage, Études transculturelles.
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71.71 mentally handicapped.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Déficiences intellectuelles-- Etudes transculturelles.
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Geistige Behinderung
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Handicapés mentaux-- Études transculturelles.
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Kulturvergleich
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Learning disabled.
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Lernbehinderung
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People with mental disabilities.
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Intellectual Disability-- ethnology.
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Geestelijk gehandicapten.
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Interculturele vergelijking.
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Leermoeilijkheden.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Developmental Disabilities-- ethnology.
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Learning Disabilities-- ethnology.
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Mental Competency.
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Mentally Disabled Persons.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.3
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| LC Classification
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HV3004.Q47 1998
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| NLM classification
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1999 C-126
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WM 300Q5 1998
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71.71bcl
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| Added Entry
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Jenkins, Richard,1952-
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