Technologies of care and the engineering imaginary: Two approaches to assistive device design for the Global South.

Assistive devices serve as vectors for the ideals, judgments, and goals that their society of origin has towards people with disabilities. For some Ugandan inventors and prosthetists, familiarity with sociocultural norms and consistent feedback allow them to design prosthetic limbs as technologies o...

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Published in:	Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 40 - 54
Main Author:	Sigounas, Vaia Y.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2024
Subjects:	Uganda United States Assistive technology Developing countries Prosthetics Engineering Engineering drawings Assistive listening systems
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost