Facing distress
Subtitle: distance and proximity in times of illness
By: edited by Els van Dongen, Ruth Kutalek
Contributors: European Association of Social Anthropologists. Conference
Series: Wiener ethnomedizinische Reihe -- Bd. 4; Wiener ethnomedizinische Reihe -- Bd. 4.
Publisher: Lit; Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Münster; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9783825801717; 9783700006220
Subjects: Sick; Congresses; Psychology; Sick Role; Cultural Anthropology; Social Distance; Krankheit; Nähe; Distanz
Notes: "Papers ... first discussed in a workshop ... at the 8th Biennial EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) conference in Vienna in September 2004"--Page iii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Els van Dongen and Ruth Kutalek; title: Anthropology and medicine: Empathy, experience and knowledge  -- Sylvie Fainzang; title: Other's pain is the anthropologist's strain. Crisis of proximity in medical anthropology of suffering  -- Els van Dongen; title: Witchcraft and violence: Aspects of distance and proximity  -- Ruth Kutalek and Armin Prinz; title: Face to face with refugee women's distress in the Netherlands: Distance and proximity in the aftermath of sexual violence  -- Annemiek Richters, Marian Tankink, Hishamah Bel Khodja, Janus Oomen and Marianne Cense; title: Working towards proximity  -- Charlotte Bredahl Jacobsen; title: Parents' first encounter with their preemie: Distance or devotion?  -- Jonina Einarsdottir; title: Feelings, distance and emotions in medical practice -- Josep M. Comelles.