Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics - Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded (Paperback, Twentieth Anniversary Ed, Updated And Expanded)

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED
When "Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics" was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes 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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2001
First published:	2010
Authors:	Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	387
Edition:	Twentieth Anniversary Ed, Updated And Expanded
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-22480-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN:	0-520-22480-9
Barcode:	9780520224803

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