Empathy and healing
Subtitle: essays in medical and narrative anthropology
By: Vieda Skultans.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845453503
Subjects: 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 -- Latvia
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Empathy and healing : aspects of spiritualist ritual; title: Bodily madness and the spread of the blush; title: The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause; title: Women and affliction in Maharstra : a hydraulic model of health and illness; title: Anthropology and psychiatry : the uneasy alliance; title: Remembering and forgetting : anthropology and psychiatry : the changing relationship; title: A historical disorder : neurasthenia and the testimony of lives in Latvia; title: Narratives of the body and history : illness in judgement on the Soviet past; title: From damaged nerves to masked depression : inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives; title: Looking for a subject : Latvian memory and narrative; title: The expropriated harvest : narratives of deportation and collectivization in north-east Latvia; title: Narratives of landscape in Latvian history and memory; title: Arguing with the KGB archives : archival and narrative memory in post-Soviet Latvia; title: Varieties of deception and distrust : moral dilemmas in the ethnography of psychiatry.