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Author Skultans, Vieda.

Title Empathy and healing [electronic resource] : essays in medical and narrative anthropology / Vieda Skultans.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Description x, 282 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-278) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Empathy and healing : aspects of spiritualist ritual -- Bodily madness and the spread of the blush -- The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause -- Women and affliction in Maharstra : a hydraulic model of health and illness -- Anthropology and psychiatry : the uneasy alliance -- Remembering and forgetting : anthropology and psychiatry : the changing relationship -- A historical disorder : neurasthenia and the testimony of lives in Latvia -- Narratives of the body and history : illness in judgement on the Soviet past -- From damaged nerves to masked depression : inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives -- Looking for a subject : Latvian memory and narrative -- The expropriated harvest : narratives of deportation and collectivization in north-east Latvia -- Narratives of landscape in Latvian history and memory -- Arguing with the KGB archives : archival and narrative memory in post-Soviet Latvia -- Varieties of deception and distrust : moral dilemmas in the ethnography of psychiatry.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781845453503 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845453506 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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