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001 2008008515
003 DLC
005 20090901090405.0
008 080226s2007 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008008515
020 $a9781845453503 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a1845453506 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn212432515
035 $a(OCoLC)212432515$z(OCoLC)148843036
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dC#P$dBWK$dDLC
043 $ae-lv---
050 00 $aGN296$b.S58 2007
082 00 $a306.4/61$222
100 1 $aSkultans, Vieda.
245 10 $aEmpathy and healing :$bessays in medical and narrative anthropology /$cVieda Skultans.
260 $aNew York :$bBerghahn Books,$c2007.
300 $ax, 282 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [264]-278) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
650 0 $aMedical anthropology$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aMedical anthropology$zLatvia.
650 0 $aTraditional medicine$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aTraditional medicine$zLatvia.
650 0 $aMental illness$xSocial aspects$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aMental illness$xSocial aspects$zLatvia.
650 0 $aPsychiatry, Transcultural.
650 0 $aPsychiatry, Transcultural$zLatvia.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0812/2008008515.html