Disability And Rehabilitation In Rural Jamaica:  An Ethnographic Study

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In very good condition. Green pictorial dustjacket, with very minor shelfwear. Black cloth boards with gilt titles, boards have a few very light spots of possible damp staining. Contents are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Includes 9 black and white photographs, 12 figures and 14 tables. Taken from inner dustjacket: "Persons with disabilities, and existing and potential modes of rehabilitation in the developing world, have yet to attract the attention they deserve from within the medical community or among health care researchers. It is estimated that about 10 per cent of the population, or 450 million people, are disabled (World Health Organization [WHO] 1984). There is remarkably little in the way of descriptive or empirical studies on cultural patterning of disability and rehabilitation, and there is a similar dearth of published information describing international rehabilitation services. The specific objectives of this research are: (1) an ethnographic description of a comm

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