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

By: Skultans, Vieda.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007Description: x, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 -- LatviaGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 306.4/61 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.