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Our Most Troubling Madness : Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures /
"Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia--long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness--are low in some countries and not in others? And why do migrants to We...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "I'm schizophrenic!" how diagnosis can change identity in the U.S. / T.M. Luhrmann
- Diagnostic neutrality in psychiatric treatment in North India / Amy June Sousa
- Vulnerable transition in a world of kin : in the shadow of good wifeliness in North India / Jocelyn Marrow
- Work and respect in Chennai / Giulia Mazza
- Racism and immigration : an African-Caribbean woman in London / Johanne Eliacin
- Voices that are more benign : the experience of auditory hallucinations in Chennai / T.M. Luhrmann and R. Padmavati
- Demonic voices : one man's experience of God and witches in Accra, Ghana / Damien Droney
- Madness experienced as faith : temple healing in South India / Anubha Sood
- Faith interpreted as madness : religion, poverty, and psychiatry in the life of a Romanian woman / Jack Friedman
- The culture of the institutional circuit in the United States / T.M. Luhrmann
- Return to baseline : a different kind of psychosis in Thailand / Julia Cassaniti
- A fragile recovery in the United States / Neely Myers.