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Empathy and Healing : Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

By Vieda Skultans

Book information

Publisher
Incorporated, Berghahn Books
Year
2008
ISBN
9780857450364, 9781845453503
LCC
GN296 .S58 2007
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3978746 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
292\292
Time added
2023-08-20 16:06:55

Description

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 of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language.

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