Empathy and healing : essays in medical and narrative anthropology /: essays in medical and narrative anthropology. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vieda Skultans.
• Other Names: Skultans, Vieda
• Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; Note on Site of Original Publication Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Empathy and Healing: Aspects of Spiritualist Ritual; Chapter 3. Bodily Madness and the Spread of the Blush; Chapter 4. The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause; Chapter 5. Women and Affliction in Maharstra: A Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness; Chapter 6. Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Uneasy Alliance; Chapter 7. Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology and Psychiatry – The Changing Relationship; Chapter 8. A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives in Latvia; Chapter 9. Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past; Chapter 10. From Damaged Nerves to Masked Depression: Inevitability and Hope in Latvian Psychiatric Narratives; Chapter 11. Looking for a Subject: Latvian Memory and Narrative; Chapter 12. The Expropriated Harvest: Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North-East Latvia; Chapter 13. Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory; Chapter 14. Arguing with the KGB Archives: Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia; Chapter 15. Varieties of Deception and Distrust: Moral Dilemmas in the Ethnography of Psychiatry Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (294 pages)
• Subjects: 306.461; 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; Psychiatry, Transcultural -- Latvia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857450364; 0857450360
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