Empathy and Healing

Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-350-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skultans, Vieda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Note on Site of Original Publication

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Empathy and Healing: Aspects of Spiritualist Ritual

Chapter 3. Bodily Madness and the Spread of the Blush

Chapter 4. The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause

Chapter 5. Women and Affliction in Maharstra: A Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness

Chapter 6. Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Uneasy Alliance

Chapter 7. Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology and Psychiatry – The Changing Relationship

Chapter 8. A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives in Latvia

Chapter 9. Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past

Chapter 10. From Damaged Nerves to Masked Depression: Inevitability and Hope in Latvian Psychiatric Narratives

Chapter 11. Looking for a Subject: Latvian Memory and Narrative

Chapter 12. The Expropriated Harvest: Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North-East Latvia

Chapter 13. Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory

Chapter 14. Arguing with the KGB Archives: Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia

Chapter 15. Varieties of Deception and Distrust: Moral Dilemmas in the Ethnography of Psychiatry

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Skultans, Vieda
Vieda Skultans is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in post-Soviet Latvia (Routledge, 1998).

Vieda Skultans is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in post-Soviet Latvia (Routledge, 1998).