| Description |
xix, 357 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 9 |
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Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 9
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| Contents |
Part I. Specifying Culture, Self and Experience: 1. Schizophrenia as a paradigm for understanding fundamental human processes / Janis H. Jenkins -- 2. Interrogating 'culture' in the WHO International Studies of Schizophrenia / Kim Hopper -- 3. Kurt Schneider in Borneo: do first rank symptoms apply to the Iban? / Robert J. Barrett -- 4. Living through a staggering world: the play of signifiers in early psychosis in South India / Ellen Corin, R. Thara and R. Padmavati -- 5. In and out of culture: ethnographic means to interpreting schizophrenia / Rod Lucas |
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Part II. Four Approaches: 6. Experiences of psychosis in Javanese culture: reflections on a case of acute, recurrent psychosis in contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Byron Good and M. A. Subandi -- 7. To 'speak beautifully' in Bangladesh: subjectivity as pagalami / James M. Wilce -- 8. Innovative care for the homeless mentally ill in Bogota, Columbia / Esperanza Diaz, Alberto Fergusson and John S. Strauss -- 9. Symptoms of colonialism: content and context of delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Jonathan Sadowsky. Part III. Subjectivity and Emotion: 10. Madness in Zanzibar: an exploration of lived experience / Juli H. McGruder -- 11. Subject/subjectiveness in dispute: the poetics, politics, and performance of first-person narratives of people with schizophrenia / Sue E. Estroff -- 12. 'Negative symptoms', common sense, and cultural disembedding in the modern age / Louis A. Sass -- 13. Subjective experience of emotion in schizophrenia Ann M. Kring and Marja K. Germans |
| Summary |
"This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - currently studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Canada, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, the United States, and Zanzibar, it also incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, but all work with a concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological dimensions. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences for the theoretical attention given to the relationship between culture and subjectivity. Multidisciplinary in design, it is written in a style accessible to a diverse readership, including undergraduate students |
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It is of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but also to all mental health professionals who encounter, day to day, the clinical problems arising at the interface of culture and psychosis."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 15, 2007) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Schizophrenia -- Social aspects.
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Schizophrenia -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Subjectivity.
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| Author |
Barrett, Robert J.
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Jenkins, Janis D.
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MyiLibrary.
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| LC no. |
2003046125 |
| ISBN |
0521829550 |
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0521536413 |
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