TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skultans,Vieda
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Empathy and healing: essays in medical and narrative anthropology 
AV  - GN296 .S58 2007eb
U1  - 306.4/61 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Latvia
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Psychiatry, Transcultural
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2010; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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