Cultural Psychiatry and Medical Anthropology : An Introduction and Reader,9780485121391

Cultural Psychiatry and Medical Anthropology : An Introduction and Reader

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ISBN13: 9780485121391
ISBN10: 0485121395
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA Academic
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Summary

Cultural Psychiatry & Medical Anthropology is designed as a textbook for a rapidly expanding new field of interdisiplinary study. As well as a broad overview of the central themes and issues, the book brings together the key writings in the field since the late 19th century. Each of the extracts has been selected to ilustrate issues of contemprary interest - these include medicine and magic, sexuality, death, pyschosis, anxiety, symbols, mental disease, intoxicants, the status of normality, hysteria and suicide.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
A Note on Terminology xi
Introduction
1(34)
Experiments with the `Jumpers' or `Jumping Frenchmen' of Maine (1880)
35(3)
George Beard
Comparative Psychiatry (1904)
38(5)
Emil Kraepelin
Medicine, Magic and Religion (1924)
43(16)
W. H. R. Rivers
Mother-Right and the Sexual Ignorance of Savages (1925)
59(20)
Ernest Jones
The Physical Effect on the Individual of the Idea of Death Suggested by the Collectivity (1926)
79(19)
Marcel Mauss
Temperament, Conflict and Psychosis in a Stone-Age Population (1929)
98(16)
C. G. Seligman
The Social Function of Anxiety in a Primitive Society (1941)
114(15)
A. Irving Hallowell
Psychopathology, Primitive Medicine and Primitive Culture (1943)
129(33)
Erwin H. Ackerknecht
The Effectiveness of Symbols (1949)
162(17)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Mental Diseases Peculiar to Certain Cultures: a Survey of Comparative Psychiatry (1951)
179(18)
P.-M. Yap
Daru and Bhang: Cultural Factors in the Choice of Intoxicant (1951)
197(16)
G .M. Carstairs
Normal and Abnormal (1956)
213(77)
George Devereux
Possession `Hysteria' in a Kenya Tribe (1957)
290(24)
Grace Harris
Suicide and Risk-taking in Tikopia Society (1961)
314(25)
Raymond Firth
An Ndembu Doctor in Practice (1964)
339(32)
Victor W. Turner
History and the Evolution of Syndromes: the Striking Case of Latah and Amok (1971)
371(22)
Henry B. M. Murphy
Index 393

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