| 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 |
Schizophrenia as a paradigm case for understanding fundamental human processes / Janis Hunter Jenkins -- Interrogating the meaning of "culture" in the WHO international studies of schizophrenia / Kim Hopper -- Kurt Schneider in Borneo: do first rank symptoms apply to the Iban? / Robert John Barrett -- Living through a staggering world: the play of signifiers in early psychosis in South India / Ellen Corin, Rangaswami Thara, Ramachandran Padmavati -- In and out of culture: ethnographic means to interpreting schizophrenia / Rod Lucas -- Experiences of psychosis in Javanese culture: reflections on a case of acute, recurrent psychosis in contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Byron J. Good, M.A. Subandi -- To "speak beautifully" in Bangladesh: subjectivity as Pāgalāmi / James M. Wilce -- Innovative care for the homeless mentally ill in Bogota, Colombia / Esperanza Diaz, Alberto Fergusson, John S. Strauss -- Symptoms of colonialism: content and context of delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Jonathan Sadowsky -- Madness in Zanzibar: an exploration of lived experience / Juli H. McGruder -- Subject/Subjectivities in dispute: the poetics, politics, and performance of first-person narratives of people with schizophrenia / Sue E. Estroff -- "Negative symptoms, " commonsense, and cultural disembedding in the modern age / Louis A. Sass -- Subjective experience of emotion in schizophrenia / Ann M. Kring, Marja K. Germans. |
| 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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Schizophrenia.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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| Added Author |
Jenkins, Janis D.
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Barrett, Robert J.
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| ISBN |
0521829550 |
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9780521829557 |
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0521536413 pb. |
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9780521536417 pb. |
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