DOCSLIB.ORG

The Culture·Bound Syndromes Cul Ture, Illness, and Healing

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Culture·Bound Syndromes Cul Ture, Illness, and Healing THE CULTURE·BOUND SYNDROMES CUL TURE, ILLNESS, AND HEALING Studies in Comparative Cross-Cultural Research Editor-in-Chief: ARTHUR KLEINMAN Harvard University and Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Editorial Board: ATWOOD D. GAINES Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University and Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. MARGARET LOCK Departments of Anthropology and Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada NUR YALMAN Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. ALLAN YOUNG Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. THE CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest Edited by RONALD C. SIMONS Depts. of Psychiatry and Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. and CHARLES C. HUGHES Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, Medical Center, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY A MEMBER OF THE KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP DORDRECHT I BOSTON I LANCASTER /TOKYO Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Main entry under title: The Culture-bound syndromes. (Culture, illness, and healing) Bibliography: p. Indudes indexes. I. Medical anthropology-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Ethno­ psychology-Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Mental illness-Social aspects­ Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Psychiatry, Transcultural-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Simons, Ronald C. II. Hughes, Charles C. (Charles Campbell) III. Series. [DNLM: 1. Culture. 2. Ethnic Groups-psychology. 3. Mental Disorders-etiology. 4. Social Environment. WM 31 C9685] GN296.C835 1985 362.1'042 85-14613 ISBN-13: 978-90-277-1859-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-5251-5 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-5251-5 Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company. P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, Holland. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 190 Old Derby Street, Hingham, MA 02043, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, Holland. All Rights Reserved © 1985 by D. Reidel Publishing Company and copyrightholders as specified on appropriate pages within. Softcover reprint of the hardcover I st edition 1985 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, induding photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner With Appreciation to: Clyde Kluckhohn Alexander H. Leighton Eng-Seong Tan Nathaniel N. Wagner T ABLE OF CONTENTS SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi PREFACE xiii INTRODUCTION CHARLES C. HUGHES / Culture-Bound or Construct-Bound? The Syndromes and DSM-III 3 RONALD C. SIMONS / Sorting the Culture-Bound Syndromes 25 PART I: FOLK ILLNESSES OF PSYCHIATRIC INTEREST IN WHICH SOME EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THE HYPOTHESIS OF A NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL SHAPING FACTOR A. The Startle Matching Taxon RONALD C. SIMONS / Introduction 41 RONALD C. SIMONS / The Resolution of the Latah Paradox 43 MICHAEL G. KENNY / Paradox Lost: The Latah Problem Revisited 63 RONALD C. SIMONS / Latah II - Problems with a Purely Symbolic Interpretation: A Reply to Michael G. Kenny 77 EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY I Shamans and Imu: Among Two Ainu Groups - Toward a Cross-CulturaI Model of Interpretation 91 CHARLES C. HUGHES / Commentary 111 B. The Sleep Paralysis Taxon RONALD C. SIMONS / Introduction 115 JOSEPH D. BLOOM and RICHARD D. GELARDIN / Uqamairineq and Uqumanigianiq: Eskimo Sleep Paralysis 117 ROBERT C. NESS / The Old Hag Phenomenon as Sleep Paralysis: A Biocultural Interpretation 123 CHARLES C. HUGHES / Commentary 147 vii viii T ABLE OF CONTENTS PART II: FOLK ILLNESSES OF PSYCHIATRIC INTEREST IN WHICH A NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL SHAPING FACTOR IS ONLY SUSPECTED A. The Genital Retraction Taxon RONALD C. SIMONS / Introduction 151 GWEE AH LENG / Koro - A Cultural Disease 155 o. I. IFABUMUYI and G. G. C. RWEGELLERA / Koro in a Nigerian Male Patient: A Case Report 161 J. GUY EDWARDS / The Koro Pattern of Depersonalization in an American Schizophrenic Patient 165 JAMES W. EDWARDS / Indigenous Koro, A Genital Retraction Syndrome of Insular Southeast Asia: A Critical Review 169 CHARLES C. HUGHES / Commentary 193 B. The Sudden Mass Assault Taxon RONALD C. SIMONS / Introduction 197 JOHN E. CARR / Ethno-Behaviorism and the Culture-Bound Syndromes: The Case of Amok 199 JOSEPH WESTERMEYER / Sudden Mass Assault with Grenade: An Epidemic Amok Form from Laos 225 B. G. BURTON-BRADLEY / The Amok Syndrome in Papua and New Guinea 237 J. ARBOLEDA-FLOREZ / Amok 251 CHARLES C. HUGHES / Commentary 263 C. The Running Taxon RONALD C. SIMONS / Introduction 267 ZACHAR Y GUSSOW / Pibloktoq (Hysteria) Among the Polar Eskimo: An Ethnopsychiatric Study 271 PHILIP A. DENNIS / Grisi Siknis in Miskito Culture 289 EDWARD F. FOULKS / The Transformation of Arctic Hysteria 307 CHARLES C. HUGHES / Commentary 325 TABLE OF CONTENTS ix PART III: FOLK ILLNESSES USUALLY LISTED AS CULTURE-BOUND PSYCHIATRIC SYNDROMES WHICH SHOULD PROBABLY NO LONGER BE SO CONSIDERED A. The Fright fllness Taxon RONALD C. SIMONS I Introduction 329 ARTHUR 1. RUBEL, CARL W. O'NELL, and ROLANDO COLLADO I The Folk Illness Called Susto 333 MARLENE DOBKIN DE RIOS I Saladera - A Culture-Bound Misfortune Syndrome in the Peruvian Amazon 351 DONN V. HART I Lanti, Illness by Fright Among Bisayan Filipinos 371 STEPHEN FRANKEL I Mogo Laya, A New Guinea Fright Illness 399 CHARLES C. HUGHES I Commentary 405 B. The Cannibal Compulsion Taxon RONALD C. SIMONS I Introduction 409 LOU MARANO I Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic-Etic Confusion 411 H. B. M. MURPHY, HAZEL H. WEIDMAN, ROBERT A. BRIGHTMAN, and LOU MARANO I Commentaries and Replies 449 CHARLES C. HUGHES I Commentary 463 APPENDIX CHARLES C. HUGHES I Glossary of 'Culture-Bound' or Folk Psychiatric Syndromes 469 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 507 INTRODUCTION TO THE INDEX 509 INDEX 512 SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ronald C. Simons, 'The Resolution of the Latah Paradox' originally appeared in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 168 (1980),195-206. It is reprinted here by permission of the Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore. Michael G. Kenny, 'Paradox Lost: The Latah Problem Revisited', and Ronald C. Simons' rejoinder, 'Latah II - Problems with a Purely Symbolic Interpretation', fIrst appeared in the Journal ofNervous and Mental Disease 171 (1983), 159-67 and 168-75 and are both reprinted here by permission of The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, 'Shamans and Imu: Among Two Ainu Groups - Toward a Cross-Cultural Model of Interpretation', fIrst appeared in Ethos 8 (1980), 204-28 and is reproduced here by permission of the Society for Psychological Anthropology . Joseph D. Bloom and Richard D. Gelardin, 'Uqamairineq and Uqumanigianiq: Eskimo Sleep Paralysis' originally appeared in Arctic 29(1) (1967), and is re­ printed here by permission of the Arctic Institute of North America_ Gwee Ah Leng, 'Koro - A Cultural Disease' first appeared in the Singapore Medical Journal 4(3) (1963) and is reprinted here by permission of the Singapore Medical Association. O. I. Ifabumuyi and G. G. C. Rwegellera, 'Koro in a Nigerian Male Patient: A Case Report' fIrst appeared in the African Journal of Psychiatry 5 (1979) and is re­ printed here by permission of Literamed Publications Nigeria Ltd. J. Guy Edwards, 'The Koro Pattern of Depersonalization in an American Schizo­ phrenic Patient' originally appeared in The American Journal ofPsychiatry 126 (1970),1171-73 and is reprinted here by permission of the American Psychiatric Association. Burton G. Burton-Bradley, 'The Amok Syndrome in Papua and New Guinea' originally appeared in The Medical Journal of Australia 1 (1968), 252-56 and is reprinted here by permission of The Medical Journal of Australia. J. Arboleda-Florez, 'Amok', first appeared in the Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law 7 (1979), 286-95 and is reprinted here by permission of the American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law. Z. Gussow, 'Pibloktoq (Hysteria) Among the Polar Eskimo' first appeared in The Psychoanalytic Study of Society 1 (1960), 218-36 and is reprinted here by permission of the International Universities Press, Inc., New York. Philip A. Dennis, 'Grisi Siknis in Miskito Culture' is a shorter version of the article entitled: 'Grisi Siknis Among the Miskito', which appeared in Medical Anthro­ pology 5, 445-505 and is reprinted here by permission of Redgrave Publishing Co. xi xii SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lou Marano, 'Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic-Etic Confusion' and the 'Commentaries and Replies' following this article originally appeared in Current Anthropology 23 (1982), 385-412 and 24 (1983), 120-25 and are both reprinted here by permission of The University of Chicago Press. We also wish to acknowledge quotations from the following publications: Alexander H. Leighton, T. Adeoye Lambo, Charles C. Hughes, Dorothea C. Leighton, Jane M. Murphy, and David B. Macklin, Psychiatric Disorder Among the Yoruba: A Report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria. © 1963 by Cornell University. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press. A large quotation from P. M. Yap in M. P. Lau and A. B. Stokes (eds.), Comparative Psychiatry: A Theoretical Framework, 1974. Reprinted by permission of the University of Toronto Press. Parts from the Diagnostic
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Medical-Anthropology-2015.Pdf
    Princeton University Department of Anthropology Spring 2015 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ANT 335 M/W 11:00 am- 12:20 pm Lewis Library 120 Instructor: Professor João Biehl ([email protected]) Lecturer: Bridget Purcell ([email protected]) Graduate Student Assistants: Kessie Alexandre ([email protected] Thalia Gigerenzer ([email protected]) Course Description Medical Anthropology is a critical and people-centered investigation of affliction and therapeutics. It draws from approaches in anthropology and the medical humanities to understand the body- environment-medicine interface in a cross-cultural perspective. How do social processes determine disease and health in individuals and collectivities? How does culture surface in the seeking of treatment and the provision of medical care? What role do medical technologies and public interventions play in health outcomes? Which values inform medical theory and practice, and how might the humanities deepen our understanding of the realities of disease and care? In the first half of the course, we will discuss topics such as: the relation of illness, subjectivity, and social experience; the logic of witchcraft; the healing efficacy of symbols and rituals; the art of caregiving and moral sensibility. We will also probe the reach and relevance of concepts such as the normal and the pathological, body techniques, discipline and normalization, medicalization, the nocebo and placebo effects, the mindful body, and the body politic. In the second half of the course, we will explore how scientific
    [Show full text]
  • Kaplan & Sadock's Study Guide and Self Examination Review In
    Kaplan & Sadock’s Study Guide and Self Examination Review in Psychiatry 8th Edition ← ↑ → © 2007 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Philadelphia 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA, LWW.com 978-0-7817-8043-8 © 2007 by LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, a WOLTERS KLUWER BUSINESS 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA, LWW.com “Kaplan Sadock Psychiatry” with the pyramid logo is a trademark of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including photocopying, or utilized by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the copyright owner, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Materials appearing in this book prepared by individuals as part of their official duties as U.S. government employees are not covered by the above-mentioned copyright. Printed in the USA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sadock, Benjamin J., 1933– Kaplan & Sadock’s study guide and self-examination review in psychiatry / Benjamin James Sadock, Virginia Alcott Sadock. —8th ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7817-8043-8 (alk. paper) 1. Psychiatry—Examinations—Study guides. 2. Psychiatry—Examinations, questions, etc. I. Sadock, Virginia A. II. Title. III. Title: Kaplan and Sadock’s study guide and self-examination review in psychiatry. IV. Title: Study guide and self-examination review in psychiatry. RC454.K36 2007 616.890076—dc22 2007010764 Care has been taken to confirm the accuracy of the information presented and to describe generally accepted practices. However, the authors, editors, and publisher are not responsible for errors or omissions or for any consequences from application of the information in this book and make no warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the currency, completeness, or accuracy of the contents of the publication.
    [Show full text]
  • UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fv121wm Author Stroud, Martha Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia by Martha Stroud A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Joint Doctor of Philosophy with University of California, San Francisco in Medical Anthropology in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Chair Professor Laura Nader Professor Sharon Kaufman Professor Jeffrey A. Hadler Spring 2015 “Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia” © 2015 Martha Stroud 1 Abstract Ripples, Echoes, and Reverberations: 1965 and Now in Indonesia by Martha Stroud Joint Doctor of Philosophy with University of California, San Francisco in Medical Anthropology University of California, Berkeley Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Chair In Indonesia, during six months in 1965-1966, between half a million and a million people were killed during a purge of suspected Communist Party members after a purported failed coup d’état blamed on the Communist Party. Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were imprisoned without trial, many for more than a decade. The regime that orchestrated the mass killings and detentions remained in power for over 30 years, suppressing public discussion of these events. It was not until 1998 that Indonesians were finally “free” to discuss this tragic chapter of Indonesian history. In this dissertation, I investigate how Indonesians perceive and describe the relationship between the past and the present when it comes to the events of 1965-1966 and their aftermath.
    [Show full text]
  • Bridget Hanna
    BRIDGET HANNA Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute Asia Center Department of Sociology and Anthropology Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Northeastern University Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA Social Anthropology, 2014 Dissertation Toxic Relief: Science, Uncertainty, and Medicine after Bhopal Committee: Arthur Kleinman, Ajantha Subramanian, Sheila Jasanoff Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA Courses Environmental Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, 2009-10 A.M. Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Social Anthropology, 2008 B.A. Bard College, Annandale, NY Cultural Anthropology, 2004 Thesis The School of the Future: The Social Construction of an Environmental Hazard in the Post-industrial Fringe POSTDOCTORAL AFFILIATIONS & OTHER RESEARCH POSITIONS Postdoctoral Research Associate, Social Science & Environmental Health Research Institute, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Northeastern University, 2014-2015; 2016. Designed survey and research materials for environmental health data privacy project with Silent Spring Institute; developed socio-exposome research project; participated in SSEHRI research group, STS training program, and sociological research training. Visiting Scholar, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2014-2016. Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, 2012-2014 Research Assistant to Professor Arthur Kleinman, Harvard Department of Social Medicine 2008;
    [Show full text]
  • The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders Diagnostic Criteria for Research
    The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders Diagnostic criteria for research World Health Organization Geneva The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations with primary responsibility for international health matters and public health. Through this organization, which was created in 1948, the health professions of some 180 countries exchange their knowledge and experience with the aim of making possible the attainment by all citizens of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. By means of direct technical cooperation with its Member States, and by stimulating such cooperation among them, WHO promotes the development of comprehensive health services, the prevention and control of diseases, the improvement of environmental conditions, the development of human resources for health, the coordination and development of biomedical and health services research, and the planning and implementation of health programmes. These broad fields of endeavour encompass a wide variety of activities, such as developing systems of primary health care that reach the whole population of Member countries; promoting the health of mothers and children; combating malnutrition; controlling malaria and other communicable diseases including tuberculosis and leprosy; coordinating the global strategy for the prevention and control of AIDS; having achieved the eradication of smallpox, promoting mass immunization against a number of other
    [Show full text]
  • Erica Caple James
    Erica Caple James MIT Anthropology Program 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room E53-335G Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 (617) 253-7321 [email protected] EDUCATION Harvard University, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology 2003 Harvard University, A.M. in Social Anthropology 1998 Harvard Divinity School, Masters of Theological Studies (M.T.S.) 1995 Princeton University, A.B. in Anthropology 1992 DISSERTATION “The Violence of Misery: ‘Insecurity’ in Haiti in the ‘Democratic’ Era” Advisor: Dr. Arthur Kleinman FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab Grant 2015-2017 Todman Family Fund, for launch of Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative 2014 Alumni Class Funds 2014 Tenure, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013 Gordon K. and Sybille Lewis (Book) Award, Caribbean Studies Association 2013 School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience, Advanced Seminar 2013 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize in the Humanities, MIT 2012 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Honorable Mention 2011 MIT Old Dominion Fellowship 2011 Class of 1947 Career Development Professorship 2010 Rita E. Hauser Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2010-2011 MIT School of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Fund 2009 NIH National Loan Repayment Program Funding for Health Disparities Research 2007-2009 Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2007 Honorable Mention Mellon Foundation Support for the Study of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2006 School of the Humanities,
    [Show full text]
  • Appendix Charles C
    APPENDIX CHARLES C. HUGHES GLOSSARY OF 'CULTURE-BOUND' OR FOLK PSYCHIATRIC SYNDROMES INTRODUCTION As suggested by Hughes in his Introduction to this volume, the term "culure­ bound syndromes" has an elusive meaning; in fact, the several conceptual elements that might imply a focused and exclusive reference for the phrase vanish upon examination, leaving a phrase that still has currency but little discriminable content. What remains appears to be more a feeling tone about certain patterns of behavior so unusual and bizarre from a Western point of view that, regardless of defmitional ambiguities, they have continued to be accorded by some writers a reified status as a different "class" sui generis of psychiatric or putatively psychiatric phenomena. Even if such a unique class were defensible, the topic is beset with sheer nota­ tional confusion. A reader may wonder, for example, whether terms resembling each other in spelling (e.g., bah tschi, bah-tsi) are reporting different disorders or simply reflecting differences in the authors' phonetic and orthographic tran­ scription styles for the same disorder. Or perhaps the various renderings are ac­ curately transcribed but represent dialectical differences in names used for a given syndrome by various groups having the same basic cultural orientation (e.g., win­ diga, witika, wihtigo, whitigo, wiitika)? In addition, of course, there may be entirely different terms for what is claimed to be essentially the same condition in diverse cultural groups (e.g., karo and shook yang). Dr. Simons noted in the foreword to this book that, as colleagues at Michigan State University over ten years ago, we began to think about such a volume.
    [Show full text]
  • Why Do Indigenous Practitioners Successfully Heal?
    WHY DO INDIGENOUS PRACTITIONERS SUCCESSFULLY HEAL? ARTHUR KLEINMAN University of Washington School of Medicine and LILIAS H. SUNG National Taiwan University [l] Abstract-The authors report findings from a follow-up study of patients treated by a shaman (t&q-ki) in Taiwan. and relate these to early findings from a much larger study of indigenous healing in that Chinese cultural setting. Ninety percent of patients treated by indigenous practitioners suRered from chronic. self-limited. and masked minor psychological disorders. The last group. involving “somatiza- tion” of personal and interpersonal problems. accounted for almost 50”,, of cases. In the follow-up study. IO of 12 consecutive cases treated by this indigenous healer rated themselves as. at least partially. cured. This occurred in spite of any significant symptom change in several cases. and in the face of considerably worsened symptoms in one case. In these cases. behavioral or social gains were respon- sible for the positive evaluation of therapeutic efficacy. INTRODUCTION Instead, I present the complex issues involved in how The study of indigenous healing may be important we evaluate therapeutic efficacy as the central prob- to the general anthropologist for the light it throws lem in the cross-cultural study of healing. The on a particular culture. It may be important to the explanations I propose for understanding how the in- medical anthropologist for the understanding it pro- digenous healing described in this paper works are vides of a given society’s system of health care. But anchored in a theoretical framework, which I outline the cross-cultural investigation of indigenous healing below.
    [Show full text]
  • Tradition, Christianity, and the State in Understandings of Sickness and Healing in South Nias, Indonesia
    TRADITION, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE STATE IN UNDERSTANDINGS OF SICKNESS AND HEALING IN SOUTH NIAS, INDONESIA by Edward Peake Thesis submitted for degree of PhD Department of Anthropology London School of Economics University of London September 2000 UMI Number: U126970 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U126970 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 F 7202 7 3 8 3 9 % ABSTRACT TRADITION, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE STATE: UNDERSTANDINGS OF SICKNESS AND HEALING IN SOUTH NIAS, INDONESIA The thesis describes the range of south Nias villagers' understandings of sickness and healing, and investigates how and why they draw on various cultural spheres in the interpretation and management of sickness events. Traditional notions of sickness etiology are set in the context of both Christian beliefs and the state's efforts to promulgate modem, 'scientific' understandings, in order to show how sociologically distinguished individuals draw variously at different times and contexts on all three fields of sickness interpretation and management. The thesis begins with a history of Nias relations with the outside world, in order to delineate the genealogy of modem Indonesian attitudes to local culture.
    [Show full text]
  • Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry
    Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry Second Edition This page intentionally left blank Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry Second Edition Edited by Russell F. Lim, M.D., M.Ed. Washington, DC London, England Note: The authors have worked to ensure that all information in this book is accurate at the time of publication and consistent with general psychiatric and medical standards, and that information concerning drug dosages, schedules, and routes of administration is accurate at the time of publication and consistent with standards set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the general medical community. As medical research and practice continue to advance, however, therapeutic standards may change. Moreover, specific situations may require a specific therapeutic response not included in this book. For these reasons and because human and mechanical errors sometimes occur, we recommend that readers follow the advice of physicians directly involved in their care or the care of a member of their family. Books published by American Psychiatric Publishing (APP) represent the findings, conclusions, and views of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the policies and opinions of APP or the American Psychiatric Association. If you would like to buy between 25 and 99 copies of this or any other American Psychiatric Publishing title, you are eligible for a 20% discount; please contact Customer Service at [email protected] or 800-368-5777. If you wish to buy 100 or more copies of the same title, please e-mail us at [email protected] for a price quote. Copyright © 2015 American Psychiatric Association ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free paper 181716151454321 Proudly sourced and uploaded by [StormRG] Second Edition Kickass Torrents | TPB | ET | h33t Typeset in Adobe Garamond and Helvetica.
    [Show full text]
  • How to Use the PIH Engage Curriculum Led By: Community Building Lead
    How to use the PIH Engage Curriculum Led by: Community Building Lead Each of the lessons revolves around a specific theme pulled from research, writing, and experience that is integral to the PIH mission and model of global health care delivery. There is a suggested order; however, each lesson can stand-alone and spark unique discussion pertinent to the movement for the right to health. Choose lessons to curate specific meetings, and play into the interests of your team members. There are two different ways to use these lessons, either through the discussion guide or lesson plan; however, every lesson has an overarching goal. By the end of the lesson, whether you use the discussion guide or the lesson plan, you should accomplish this goal. Goals can be shared with your team, or simply used to guide how your time is spent. It is imperative that the Community Building Lead deeply engages with and has a strong understanding of the readings to properly facilitate these discussions. Reviewing the discussion guide and lesson plan prior to the meeting is also necessary. The Community Building Lead should also make sure team members have copies of the reading, either digital or physical, prior to and during the meeting. Additionally, the Community Building Lead should feel free to use additional resources (e.g. videos, handouts, slides, etc.). It is also helpful to be interactive while conducting lessons –use blackboards/whiteboards, projectors, and any other resources available to you. Discussion Guide Use the discussion guide if your team members will fully engage with the readings and come with a solid understanding of the literature.
    [Show full text]
  • Princeton University Fall 2019 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES in GLOBAL HEALTH GHP 350 / ANT 380 / WWS 380 Lewis Library 120 M-W 11:00
    Princeton University Fall 2019 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN GLOBAL HEALTH GHP 350 / ANT 380 / WWS 380 Lewis Library 120 M-W 11:00 am – 12:20 pm Instructor: João Biehl | [email protected] Teaching Fellows: Arbel Griner [email protected] Heidi Morefield [email protected] Sebastián Ramírez [email protected] Course Description Global health brings together a vast and diverse array of actors working to address urgent health issues worldwide with unprecedented, if unequally distributed, financial and technological resources. This course is a critical analysis of the cultural, social, political, and economic processes related to this expanding medical and humanitarian field. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the course identifies the main actors, institutions, practices, and forms of knowledge production at work in the ‘global health systems today and explores the multiple factors that shape patterns and variations in disease and health across societies. As we scrutinize the evidence-making practices, agendas, and values that underpin specific paradigms in global health, we will place current interventions in historical perspective, gauging their benefits as well as their sometimes- unintended consequences. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to think critically and creatively about health problems and policies and to envision innovative and effective forms of collaborative research and interventions. We will emphasize the ways in which the field of global health challenges both the social and natural sciences to keep up with changing socio- medical realities and to better understand local worlds and the needs, experiences, and capacities of people—from the subjects of interventions to the health workers and scientists who seek to assist them.
    [Show full text]