Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics

2001

Boek; (XXVIII, 390 p.) ill

Met bibliografie. - Herz. en verm. ed. - Oorspronkelijke uitgave: 1977

Studie over de sociale disintegratie en de psychiatrische gevolgen van Ballybran, een dorp in Ierland. - Study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. This book explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of childrearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia. Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her

Located in: IERLAND

ISBN: 978-0-520-22480-3

VUBIS: 2:99719