Mental disorder /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Khan, Nichola, author.
Imprint:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Description:	xxiv, 129 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropological insights Anthropological insights.
Subject:	Mental illness -- Cross-cultural studies. Mental illness -- Social aspects. Cultural psychiatry. Ethnopsychology. Medical anthropology. Mental Disorders -- ethnology. Anthropology, Medical. Cultural psychiatry. Ethnopsychology. Medical anthropology. Mental illness. Mental illness -- Social aspects. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11015653

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ISBN:	9781442635340 1442635347 9781442635333 1442635339 9781442635357 9781442635364
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-121) and index. Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:	"This book reflects anthropology's growing encounter with the key "pysch" disciplines (psychology and psychiatry) in theorizing and researching mental illness treatment and recovery. Khan summarizes new approaches to mental illness, situating them in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial approaches, and encouraging readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality is constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology/psychiatry/medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures."--
Other form:	Khan, Nichola, author. Mental disorder. Anthropological insights Anthropological insights

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Summary:	This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial frameworks, allowing readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality are constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology, psychiatry, and medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures.
Physical Description:	xxiv, 129 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-121) and index.
ISBN:	9781442635340 1442635347 9781442635333 1442635339 9781442635357 9781442635364