Questions of competence : culture, classification and intellectual disability / edited by Richard Jenkins.

Other author Jenkins, Richard, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Descriptionix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 230-245) and index.
LCCN 98003022
ISBN0521623030 (hardback)
ISBN0521626625 (pbk.)