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Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic : Anxious Selves in Urban and Rural South India.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willford, Andrew C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- NIMHANS (Institute).
- Genre:
- Case studies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Andrew C. Willford is professor of anthropology at Cornell University.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Two Deaths
- Shame, Stigma, and the Normalizing Impulse
- Rebellion and Abandonment: Excess and Antinomy
- Singularities and their Discontents
- Living with Urban Stress: Anxiety, IT, and Burnout in the New Economy
- Seizures, "Fits," and Neurology
- Conclusion: Social Dimensions of Mental Illness and Care.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8070-139-1
- OCLC:
- 1546967044
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