Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics : Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded Paperback / softback
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland.
In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of childrearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia.
Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her.
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:417 pages, 23 b-w illustrations, 29 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:03/01/2001
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- ISBN:9780520224803
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:417 pages, 23 b-w illustrations, 29 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:03/01/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520224803