Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Med Anthropol. 2021 Feb-Mar;40(2):111-115. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1858296. Epub 2021 Jan 15.
Why do some people's minds seem conspicuous, disabled, and ill-fitting in some contexts and not others? This special issue presents articles about people in Jordan, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States who live with Down syndrome, autism, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, or histories of brain injuries. We focus on the disjunctive encounters between these individuals' minds and the varied relational processes in their surrounding social world in order to understand why different mental characteristics become points of concern and comparison at some points and not others - and thus to raise questions about how "fitting in" works altogether.
为什么有些人的思维在某些情境中显得与众不同、有缺陷和不合适，而在其他情境中则不然？本期特刊收录了一些文章，介绍了生活在约旦、乌干达、英国和美国的唐氏综合征、自闭症、智力残疾、脑瘫或脑损伤患者。我们关注的是这些个体的思维与他们周围社会世界中各种关系过程之间的不连续相遇，以便了解为什么不同的心理特征在某些时候而不是其他时候成为关注和比较的焦点，从而提出关于“适应”整体是如何运作的问题。
