Bending over Backwards : Essays on Disability and the Body.

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over...

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Main Author: Davis, Lennard J.
Other Authors: Bérubé, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2002.
Series:Cultural Front Ser.
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