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"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 child rearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia.
Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a lengthy 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ireland, Irish National characteristics, Mental illness, Social life and customs, Social psychiatry, Statistics, Ethnopsychology, Anomie, Rural Health, Geestelijke gezondheid, Schizofrenie, Schizophrenia, Social Environment, Mental Disorders, Platteland, National characteristics, irish, Ireland, social life and customsPlaces
Clochan, Clochan (Ireland), Cochlan, IrelandTimes
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Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland
2001, University of California Press
in English
- [20th anniversary ed., rev. and expanded].
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Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
January 18, 1983, University of California Press
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in English
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0520047869 9780520047860
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Saints, scholars and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland.
1982, University of California Press
in English
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Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland
1979, University of California Press
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0520034449 9780520034440
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Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland
1979, University of California Press
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"A SINGLE, twisting road leads through the eastern half of the Dingle Peninsula-the ancient barony of Corca Dhuibhne-in southwest Kerry, from the bustling, almost modern, market town of Tralee, over the Slieve Mish mountain range, through deep glens, alongside the "wild" coastline, past low sand dunes and steep cliffs, ending at the sheltered bay of Ballybran."
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