Empathy and Healing : Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology.

Empathy and Healing : Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology.

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 o...

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Main Author: Skultans, Vieda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology > Cross-cultural studies.
Medical anthropology > Latvia.
Traditional medicine > Cross-cultural studies.
Traditional medicine > Latvia.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Latvia.
Psychiatry, Transcultural > Latvia.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > Healing.
Medical anthropology
Mental illness > Social aspects
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Traditional medicine
Latvia
Cross-cultural studies
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