Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

by ViedaSkultans (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $148.05

  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.