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Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights
Nichola Khan
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Description for Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights
Paperback. This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Series: Anthropological Insights. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMP; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 304 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Anthropological Insights
Condition
New
Weight
227g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442635333
SKU
V9781442635333
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About Nichola Khan
Nichola Khan is a social and psychological anthropologist, a chartered psychologist, and Principal Lecturer, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton.
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