Schizophrenia, culture, and subjectivity:the edge of experience

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Jenkins Janis D.; Barrett Robert J.
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 9
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Carrier Form: xix, 357 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0521829550
0521536413 (pb.)
Index Number: R749
CLC: R749.3
R749.3-05
Call Number: R749.3/S337-1
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schizophrenia as a paradigm case for understanding fundamental human processes / Janis Hunter Jenkins -- Interrogating the meaning of "culture" in the WHO international studies of schizophrenia / Kim Hopper -- Kurt Schneider in Borneo: do first rank symptoms apply to the Iban? / Robert John Barrett -- Living through a staggering world: the play of signifiers in early psychosis in South India / Ellen Corin, Rangaswami Thara, Ramachandran Padmavati -- In and out of culture: ethnographic means to interpreting schizophrenia / Rod Lucas -- Experiences of psychosis in Javanese culture: reflections on a case of acute, recurrent psychosis in contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Byron J. Good, M.A. Subandi -- To "speak beautifully" in Bangladesh: subjectivity as P?agal?ami / James M. Wilce -- Innovative care for the homeless mentally ill in Bogota, Colombia / Esperanza Diaz, Alberto Fergusson, John S. Strauss -- Symptoms of colonialism: content and context of delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Jonathan Sadowsky -- Madness in Zanzibar: an exploration of lived experience / Juli H. McGruder -- Subject/Subjectivities in dispute: the poetics, politics, and performance of first-person narratives of people with schizophrenia / Sue E. Estroff -- "Negative symptoms," commonsense, and cultural disembedding in the modern age / Louis A. Sass -- Subjective experience of emotion in schizophrenia / Ann M. Kring, Marja K. Germans.