Our most troubling madness : case studies in schizophrenia across cultures /
"Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia--long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness--are low in some countries and not in others? And why do migrants to We...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;
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Table of Contents:
- "I'm schizophrenic!" : how diagnosis can change identity in the United States
- Diagnostic neutrality in psychiatric treatment in North India
- Vulnerable transition in a world of kin : in the shadow of good wifeliness in North India
- Work and respect in Chennai
- Racism and immigration : an African-Caribbean woman in London
- Voices that are more benign : the experience of auditory hallucinations in Chennai
- Demonic voices : one man's experience of God, witches, and psychosis in Accra, Ghana
- Madness experienced as faith : temple healing in North India
- Faith interpreted as madness : religion, poverty, and psychiatry in the life of a Romanian woman
- The culture of the institutional circuit in the United States
- Return to baseline : a woman with acute-onset, non-affective remitting psychosis in Thailand
- A fragile recovery in the United States.