Empathy and healing essays in medical and narrative anthropology / [electronic resource] :
Vieda Skultans.
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- x, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-278) and index.
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.
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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.