The tips are my toes: prejudice isolates like little else. But Mosharraf Hossain finds that if people with disabilities are determined, it can be fought.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 2005, January 2005
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CULTURAL ATTITUDES / POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT - Column
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The tips are my toes: prejudice isolates like little else. But Mosharraf Hossain finds that if people with disabilities are determined, it can be fought.
In the Bangladeshi village where I was born in the early 1960s, most people, even many health professionals, did not know about polio. At the age of three when I was affected by high fever, the village quack gave me an injection to reduce the temperature that he thought had been caused by malaria. The temperature waned--but s...
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