Empathy and healing : essays in medical and narrative anthropology / / Vieda Skultans.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 282 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Empathy and healing : aspects of spiritualist ritual
- Bodily madness and the spread of the blush
- The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause
- Women and affliction in Maharstra : a hydraulic model of health and illness
- Anthropology and psychiatry : the uneasy alliance
- Remembering and forgetting : anthropology and psychiatry : the changing relationship
- A historical disorder : neurasthenia and the testimony of lives in Latvia
- Narratives of the body and history : illness in judgement on the Soviet past
- From damaged nerves to masked depression : inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives
- Looking for a subject : Latvian memory and narrative
- The expropriated harvest : narratives of deportation and collectivization in north-east Latvia
- Narratives of landscape in Latvian history and memory
- Arguing with the KGB archives : archival and narrative memory in post-Soviet Latvia
- Varieties of deception and distrust : moral dilemmas in the ethnography of psychiatry.