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Exotic deviance : medicalizing cultural idioms--from strangeness to illness / Robert E. Bartholomew.
Van Pelt Library RC455.4.E8 B367 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartholomew, Robert E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry, Transcultural.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Ethnocentrism.
- Deviant behavior.
- Social control.
- Hysteria, Epidemic.
- Chorea, Epidemic.
- Latah (Disease).
- Koro (Disease).
- Medicalization.
- Behavioral Symptoms--ethnology.
- Psychology, Social.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Koro.
- Hysteria.
- Medical Subjects:
- Behavioral Symptoms--ethnology.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Psychology, Social.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Koro.
- Hysteria.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 280 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2000]
- Summary:
- Focusing on the gap between democratic ideals and performance, three European academics study the common experience and even more common perception of the corrupt behavior of bureaucrats in post-communist Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The authors conducted focus-group studies, one-on-one interviews, and large-scale surveys to reveal plentiful details about the ways ordinary citizens cope in their day-to-day dealings with low-level officials and state employees, whose decisions can have a critically important impact on people's lives. c. Book News Inc.
- Contents:
- Western medical imperialism and the politics of psychiatric classification
- Disease, disorder, or deception: Latah as habit and fraud in a Malay extended family
- From idiom to illness: The Western construction of Latah
- Medicalizing deviant perceptual sets and sexual worldviews: a sociological perspective on epidemic Koro and similar collective behaviors
- Medieval dancing manias as history-specific variants of "mass psychogenic illness": a critique and reappraisal
- Deconstructing "epidemic" conversion "hysteria" in school settings: a cautionary tale
- Psychiatric imperialism and the medicalization of exotic deviance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-266) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bartholomew, Robert E. Exotic deviance.
- ISBN:
- 9639116998
- 9789639116993
- 0870815970
- 9780870815973
- 0870815989
- 9780870815980
- OCLC:
- 45270304
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