Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan 0197507352, 9780197507353

Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China 9781135094591, 9780415810067

With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by the

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Women, Body, Illness : Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness 9780847695430, 2002001197, 9780847695447, 9781461647324

This provocative and moving work explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles

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Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media: Quieting the Madness 0367820528, 9780367820527

This volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, as

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Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India 9780812209280

In this account of an anthropologist's journey into Indian psychiatry wards, among women with mental illnesses and

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Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India 9780812245837

In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from

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Living with Lupus: Women and Chronic Illness in Ecuador 9780292744660

Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider

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Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital 019085264X, 9780190852641

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' mo

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Self-Made Madness: Rethinking Illness and Criminal Responsibility 0754623327, 9780754623328

This multi-disciplinary book lies in the general areas of forensic psychiatry/psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, crim

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Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific 9781138119048, 9781315652467

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Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England, 1820-1860 9780520932210

The history of psychiatric institutions and the psychiatric profession is by now familiar: asylums multiplied in ninetee

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