Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

by Vieda Skultans

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0857451383

ISBN13:9780857451385

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Length:294 Pages

Weight:0.87 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Anthropology General Medical Medical Books Medicine Politics & Social Sciences Psychology Social Psychology & Interactions Social Science Social Sciences

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