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  "I speak a different dialect": Teen explanatory models of difference and disability

  A majority of teens had a reasonably rich and coherent explanatory model (EM), blending typical and disability themes of cultural knowledge and identity.
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  Why am I not disabled? Making state subjects, making statistics in post-Mao China

  How and why disability was defined and statistically quantified by China's party-state in the late 1980s.
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  Multiple chemical sensitivities: Stigma and social experiences

  The context of multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) in terms of cultural themes, the media, and the economic power of industries that manufacture the products that make people with MCS sick.
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  Stigma, community, ethnography: Joan Ablon's contribution to the anthropology of impairment-disability

  Joan Ablon has helped stablish the anthropology of impairment-disability and significantly contributed to the role of anthropology in disability studies.
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  Self-mortification and the stigma of leprosy in northern India

  The biocultural dynamics of social discrimination and physical disfigurement among people with leprosy, or Hansen's disease(HD), in Banaras, northern India.
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  The meaning of the present: Hope and foreclosure in narrations about people with severe brain damage

  Hope, in the relation to narratives told about people with severe disabilities that are considered "incurable," must be understood within a realm of narrative foreclosure.
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  The meaning of the present: Hope and foreclosure in narrations about people with severe brain damage

  Hope, in the relation to narratives told about people with severe disabilities that are considered "incurable," must be understood within a realm of narrative foreclosure.
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  Controlling death-Compromising life: Chronic disease, prognostication, and the new biotechnologies

  The results of a three-year ethnographic study of persons with cystic fibrosis (CF) who undergo double-lung transplant.