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Exotic Deviance: Medicalizing Cultural Idioms-From Strangeness to Illness
Exotic Deviance Medicalizing Cultural IdiomsFrom Strangeness to Illness
Author: Robert E. Bartholomew
This is a seminal study of Western psychiatric interpretations of some of the most bizarre behaviours so strange by modern Western standards that they are assumed to be illnesses of disorders - latah, koro, and dance "mania". Psychiatrists making these diagnoses draw heavily on Eurocentric values and assumptions. The book examines Otherness with...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780870815973
ISBN-10: 0870815970
Pages: 280
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Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Book Type: Hardcover
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