num_pages: 407
description: TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDEDWhen Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic―a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of childrearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia. Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her.
language: English
title: Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
titlecomplete: Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
genres: Anthropology, Ireland, Medicine, Academic, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, History, Mental Illness, Ethnography
ratings_count: 335
publisher: University of California Press