Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in Seventeenth-Century England 1317294335, 9781317294337

Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness 9780520962224

With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H. Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and dep

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The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England 9780226714561

In The Province of Affliction, Ben Mutschler explores the surprising roles that illness played in shaping the foundation

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The Healers 9780824866808

With roots firmly in the oral storytelling tradition, Kimo Armitage's The Healers weaves multiple narrators and tim

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Homelessness and Mental Illness: Exploring the Lived Experience in India [First Edition] 103219572X, 9781032195728

This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental il

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Homelessness and Mental Illness: Exploring the Lived Experience in India [First Edition] 103219572X, 9781032195728

This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental il

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Doctors and Healers 1509521895, 9781509521890

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic

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The Self Healers Protocol

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Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia 9780812298475

In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her inge

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The Language of Mental Illness: Corpus Linguistics and the Construction of Mental Illness in the Press 1108845916, 9781108845915, 9781108991278, 9781108994040

Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting on the topic on an

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Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914 9780300168204

This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families

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