Description
Product ID: | 9780520224803 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics |
Subtitle: | Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded |
Authors: | Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
Page Count: | 417 |
Subjects: | Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Anthropology, Anthropology, Ireland |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of "Ballybran", a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, exploring the symptoms of the communities decline: from emigration to schizophrenia. This edition contains a new preface and epilogue. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-01-03 |