Book review

Abstract

Anthropologists have recently begun to show more interest in applying ethnographic research methods to the analysis of the social and cultural contexts of disability. However, there is still much to be done in order to demonstrate anthropology’s relevance to the study of physical and intellectual disability, the relationship between disability and reproductive technologies, and concepts of normality and abnormality. Gail Heidi Landsman’s new book on finding meaning in motherhood in the U.S. when a child has a disability is a very important step in this direction. Landsman explains in her introduction that her monograph is