TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skultans, Vieda
AU  - Skultans, Vieda
TI  - Empathy and Healing : : Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
SN  - 9780857451385
U1  - 306.461 SKU 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Berghahn Books, Inc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Culture and Institutions
KW  - Medical anthropology -- Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Traditional medicine -- Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Psychiatry, Transcultural -- Latvia
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
KW  - MEDICAL -- Healing
KW  - Psychiatry, Transcultural
KW  - Traditional medicine
N1  - 	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
N2  - 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
ER  -