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Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity

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This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Canada, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, the United States and Zanzibar, it also incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, but all work with a concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological dimensions. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences for the theoretical attention given to the relationship between culture and subjectivity. Multidisciplinary in design, it is written in a style accessible to a diverse readership, including undergraduate students. It is of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but also to all mental health professionals.

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ISBN: 9780521536417
Publication date: 17th November 2003
Author: Janis Hunter (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio) Jenkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 382 pages
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
Genres: Social and cultural anthropology
Human biology
Anthropology
Psychology
Psychiatry