The geography of madness : penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes /

The geography of madness : penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bures, Frank, author.
Imprint:	Brooklyn, NY ; London : Melville House, [2016]
Description:	xiii, 241 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology. Ethnopsychology. Human geography. Medical anthropology. Psychiatry, Transcultural. Ethnology. Ethnopsychology. Human geography. Medical anthropology. Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10766989

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ISBN:	9781612193724 1612193722 9781612193731
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-231) and index.
Summary:	"Jon Ronson meets David Grann in this fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us go totally insane The Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culture-bound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they're in good physical shape? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures travels around the world to trace culture-bound syndromes to their sources--and in the process, tells a remarkable story about the strange things all of us believe"--
Other form:	Online version: Bures, Frank. Geography of madness Brooklyn, NY ; London : Melville House, 2016 9781612193731

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. The Case of the Missing Manhood
2. Following Threads
3. Culture Bound
4. Modern Minds
5. Savage Minds
6. Bad Buns
7. American Maladies
8. Mingling Medicines
9. Strange Loops
10. The Dragon's Tail
11. The Chains That Bind Us
12. The Worm Turns
13. Beyond Belief
14. To the Sea
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index