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
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Sumario: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 of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (292 pages)
ISBN:9780857450364
0857450360

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