Empathy and Healing : Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology.

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For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Skultans, Vieda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
Temas:
Medical anthropology > Cross-cultural studies.
Medical anthropology > Latvia.
Traditional medicine > Cross-cultural studies.
Traditional medicine > Latvia.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Latvia.
Psychiatry, Transcultural > Latvia.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social > Lettonie.
Ethnopsychiatrie > Lettonie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > Healing.
Medical anthropology
Mental illness > Social aspects
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Traditional medicine
Latvia
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page-Empathy and healing; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on site of original publication; Ch 1-Introduction; Ch 2-Empathy and healing; Ch 3-Bodily madness and the spread of the blush; Ch 4-The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause; Ch 5-Women and affliction in maharastra; Ch 6-Anthropology and psychiatry; Ch 7-Remembering and forgetting; Ch 8-A historical disorder; Ch 9-Narratives of the body and history; Ch 10-From damaged nerves to masked depression; Ch 11-Looking for a subject; Ch 12-The expropriated harvest.
  • Ch 13-Narratives of landscape in Latvian history and memoryCh 14-Arguing with the KGB archives; Ch 15-Varieties of deception and distrust; Bibliography; Index.

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