‘Caring for Him Makes Me More Sensitive, like a Kind of Prayer’: Intimate Physical Care for Aging Family Members with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Religious Muslim and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Societies
By: Alon Zamir and Rabab Awad
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1193 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 106 - 119
Submitted on: Sep 13, 2024
Accepted on: Feb 3, 2025
Published on: Mar 7, 2025
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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