Empathy and Healing
Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

CONTENTS

• List of Figures (25Kb PDF)

• List of Tables (23Kb PDF)

• Note on Original Publication (43Kb PDF)

1. Introduction

2. Empathy and Healing: Aspects of Spiritualist Ritual

3. Bodily Madness and the Spread of the Blush

4. The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause

5. Women and Affliction in Maharastra: a Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness

6. Anthropology and Psychiatry: the Uneasy Alliance

7. Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology and Psychiatry – the Changing Relationship

8. A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives in Latvia

9. Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past

10. From Damaged Nerves to Masked Depression: Inevitability and Hope in Latvian Psychiatric Narratives

11. Looking for a Subject: Latvian Memory and Narrative

12. The Expropriated Harvest: Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North-East Latvia

13. Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory

14. Arguing with the KGB Archives: Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia

15. Varieties of Deception and Distrust: Moral Dilemmas in the Ethnography of Psychiatry

• Notes on Contributors (76Kb PDF)

• Index (58Kb PDF)