Empathy and Healing

Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

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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 the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language.

Author Biography:

Vieda Skultans is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in post-Soviet Latvia (Routledge, 1998).

Release date Australia

March 1st, 2008

Author

Vieda Skultans

Audience

Undergraduate

Pages

294

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9781845453503

Product ID

1937312

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