Impairment as a Human Constant: Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Variation.

Scheer, Jessica; Groce, Nora

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Publication Date: 1988

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Impairment as a Human Constant: Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Variation.

Scheer, Jessica; Groce, Nora

Journal of Social Issues, v44 n1 p23-37 Spr 1988

Disability is a human constant: all human societies have and have always had disabled members. Although the presence of such individuals is a constant, culturally shared responses to them vary greatly across time and social context. (Author/BJV)

Descriptors: Ancient History, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Definitions, Disabilities, Folk Culture, History, Mainstreaming, Minority Groups, Multiple Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Primatology, Social Attitudes, Social Cognition

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