03899nam 2200733 a 450 991082553370332120200520144314.01-282-62685-X97866126268520-85745-036-010.1515/9780857450364(CKB)2560000000012197(EBL)544420(OCoLC)645101970(SSID)ssj0000383512(PQKBManifestationID)12137272(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000383512(PQKBWorkID)10331177(PQKB)11476269(MiAaPQ)EBC544420(DE-B1597)636952(DE-B1597)9780857450364(EXLCZ)99256000000001219720080226d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmpathy and healing essays in medical and narrative anthropology /Vieda SkultansNew York Berghahn Books20071 online resource (292 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-138-3 1-84545-350-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-278) and index.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.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.Medical anthropologyCross-cultural studiesMedical anthropologyLatviaTraditional medicineCross-cultural studiesTraditional medicineLatviaMental illnessSocial aspectsCross-cultural studiesMental illnessSocial aspectsLatviaPsychiatry, TransculturalPsychiatry, TransculturalLatviaMedical anthropologyMedical anthropologyTraditional medicineTraditional medicineMental illnessSocial aspectsMental illnessSocial aspectsPsychiatry, Transcultural.Psychiatry, Transcultural306.4/61LC 56322rvkSkultans Vieda897074MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825533703321Empathy and healing3947819UNINA