: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology Skultans, Vieda creator Skultans, Vieda text New York : Berghahn Books, Inc 2008 monographic eng

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x, 282 24cm. For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language Title page-Empathy and healing; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on site of original publication; Ch 1-Introduction; Ch 2-Empathy and healing; Ch 3-Bodily madness and the spread of the blush; Ch 4-The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause; Ch 5-Women and affliction in maharastra; Ch 6-Anthropology and psychiatry; Ch 7-Remembering and forgetting; Ch 8-A historical disorder; Ch 9-Narratives of the body and history; Ch 10-From damaged nerves to masked depression; Ch 11-Looking for a subject; Ch 12-The expropriated harvest. Ch 13-Narratives of landscape in Latvian history and memoryCh 14-Arguing with the KGB archives; Ch 15-Varieties of deception and distrust; Bibliography; Index. / Vieda Skultans Social Sciences Culture and Institutions Medical anthropology -- Cross-cultural studies Traditional medicine -- Cross-cultural studies Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies Psychiatry, Transcultural -- Latvia POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural MEDICAL -- Healing MEDICAL -- Healing Psychiatry, Transcultural Traditional medicine 306.461 SKU 9780857451385 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi 211126 20211206130645.0