Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics - Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition,

Zusatztext "[Scheper-Hughes's] prose is so clear that not only the non-specialist but the average reader can comprehend her arguments and understand the issues she raises." Informationen zum Autor Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the doctoral program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her many publications include two books published by California, the award-winning Death without Weeping (1992) and Small Wars (1998). Klappentext " Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."--Conor Cruise O'Brien Zusammenfassung This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of "Ballybran", a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, exploring the symptoms of the communities decline: from emigration to schizophrenia. This edition contains a new preface and epilogue.

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• Authors: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Scheper-Hughes Nancy
• Assisted by: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2001
• EAN: 9780520224803
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22480-3
• No. of pages: 417
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Ireland, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects