About the Author

Benedicte Ingstad is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of General Practice and Community Medicine at the University of Oslo. She is author of Community-Based Rehabilitation in Botswana: The Myth of the Hidden Disabled. Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda and coauthor, with Sjaak van der Geest and Anita Hardon, of Social Lives of Medicines. Together, Ingstad and Whyte coedited Disability and Culture (UC Press).