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1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Medical anthropology -- Latvia.
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Traditional medicine -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Traditional medicine -- Latvia.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Latvia.
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Psychiatry, Transcultural -- Latvia.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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MEDICAL -- Healing. |
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Medical anthropology |
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Mental illness -- Social aspects |
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Psychiatry, Transcultural |
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Traditional medicine |
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Latvia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHq9jXxgkrpmbV4KjDMP |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Skultans, Vieda. Empathy and Healing : Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., ©2008 9781845453503 |
| ISBN |
9780857450364 (electronic bk.) |
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0857450360 (electronic bk.) |
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