Overview

Illness can be interpreted as characteristic of the particular society in which it is found, as culture-bound syndromes. This study provides an introduction to the fields of cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology.

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Author:   Roland Littlewood ,  Simon Dein
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.667kg
ISBN:  

9780485121391

ISBN 10:   0485121395
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 December 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

A note on terminology. Introduction; experiments with the Jumpers or Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (1880), George M. Beard; comparative psychiatry (1904), Emil Kraepelin; medicine , magic an religion, W.H.R. Rivers; mother-right and the sexual life of savages (1925), Ernest Jones; the physical effect on the individual of the idea of death suggested by the collectivity (1926), Marcel Mauss; temperament, conflict and psychosis in a Stone-age population (1929), C.G. Seligman; the social function of anxiety in a primitive society (1941), A. Irving Hallowell; psychopathology, primitive medicine and primitive culture (1943), Erwin H. Ackerknecht; the effectiveness of symbols (1949), Claude Levi Strauss; mental diseases peculiar to certain cultures - a survey of comparative psychiatry (1951), P.-M. Yapp; Dhary and Bhang - cultural factors in the choice of intoxicants (1954), G.M. Carstairs; normal and abnormal (1956), George Devereux; possession hysteria in a Kenya tribe (1957), Grace Harris; suicide and risk-taking in Tikopia society (1961), Raymond Firth; an Ndembu doctor in practice (1964), Victor W. Turner; history and the evolution of syndromes - the striking case of Latah and Amok (1971), Henry B.M. Murphy.

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'Through a major field, culltural psychiatry has been all to inaccessible for students, its key papers hidden away in obscure journals. But no more! This splendid reader, with its well chosen cast of classic texts, is the perfect solution. -Roy Porter

Author Information

Roland Littlewood is Professor of Anthropology and Pyschiatry at Unversity College London. Simon Dein is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Medicine at University College London, UK. He is author of Religion and Healing Among the Lubavitch Community in Stamford Hill, North London and has spent over fifteen years conducting fieldwork among Lubavitch Hasidim, both in London and New York.

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