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Vieda Skultans - Empathy and Healing - 9781845453503 - V9781845453503
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Empathy and Healing

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Description for Empathy and Healing Hardcover. Presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language. Num Pages: bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1DBKWS; 1DVUC; 1FKA; JHM; MB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.

For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845453503
SKU
V9781845453503
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Vieda Skultans
Vieda Skultans is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and Memory in post-Soviet Latvia (Routledge, 1998).

Reviews for Empathy and Healing
“Arguably, Vieda Skultans is the most prominent contemporary Latvian social anthropologist…One of the best assets of this book is its introduction. In its 15 lucid and condensed pages, Skultans summarizes her intellectual journey and contextualizes the articles presented in the collection, thus providing readers with a highly efficient guide to the themes that hold the book together.”  ·  Journal of ... Read more

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