Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity
Subtitle: The Edge of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Contributors: Janis Hunter Jenkins (Editor); Robert John Barrett (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780521536417
Subjects: Medical anthropology; Psychiatry; Psychology; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Cross-cultural studies; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Subjectivity; Social aspects; Anthropology - Cultural; Mental Illness; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Schizophrenia
First sentence: From the standpoint of an anthropology concerned with the nature and meaning of subjective experience, it would appear to be commonplace to argue that a theoretically grounded understanding of cultural orientation, self, emotion, and social relations is vital to the analysis of a complex pathological phenomenon such as schizophrenia.