1. Authorizing a Disability Agency in Post-Mao China: Deng Pufang's Story as Biomythography.
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Kohrman, Matthew
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MEDICAL rehabilitation , *HUMAN rights , *SOCIAL services , *SOCIAL medicine ,MEDICAL care for people with disabilities - Abstract
Examines the formation and influence of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, which was formed in 1988 to assist disabled persons and to develop a specific branch of biomedical care, rehabilitation medicine. Formation of the federation by Deng Pufang, eldest son of Deng Xiaoping, one of China's top government leaders in the late 20th century; Role of the federation in promoting rights discourses; China's use of the federation's existence as proof of China's commitment to fostering national civility and international standards of human rights; Analysis of the role of Deng Pufang's bodily presence in the emergence of an apparatus of normalization and social assistance.
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- 2003
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