Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics
mental illness in rural Ireland
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- 7 Want to read
"When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic - a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of child rearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia.
Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a lengthy new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her."--BOOK JACKET.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Ireland, Irish National characteristics, Mental illness, Social life and customs, Social psychiatry, Statistics, Ethnopsychology, Anomie, Rural Health, Geestelijke gezondheid, Schizofrenie, Schizophrenia, Social Environment, Mental Disorders, Platteland, National characteristics, irish, Ireland, social life and customsPlaces
Clochan, Clochan (Ireland), Cochlan, IrelandTimes
20th century| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland
2001, University of California Press
in English
- [20th anniversary ed., rev. and expanded].
0520224809 9780520224803
|
aaaa
|
2
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
January 18, 1983, University of California Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0520047869 9780520047860
|
eeee
|
3
Saints, scholars and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland.
1982, University of California Press
in English
- Paperback ed.
0520047869 9780520047860
|
zzzz
|
4
Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland
1979, University of California Press
0520034449 9780520034440
|
zzzz
|
|
5
|
zzzz
|
6
Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland
1979, University of California Press
in English
0520034449 9780520034440
|
zzzz
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?Lists
See All
| November 12, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| July 31, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| February 13, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
| October 25, 2012 | Edited by ImportBot | Added subject 'In library' |
| December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |