Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural

Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED

When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classicâ€”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.
Country USA
Brand University of California Press
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2001-01-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780520224803

Country	USA
Brand	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2001-01-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780520224803

Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded