Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics : mental illness in rural Ireland /

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.

Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics : mental illness in rural Ireland / Nancy Scheper-Hughes. - 20th anniversary ed., updated and expanded. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001. - xxviii, 389 p. : ill.., ports.. ; 23 cm. .

Previous ed.: 1979.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 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.

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Mental illness--Ireland--Clochan
National characteristics, Irish.
Anthropology
Ireland
Illness & addiction: social aspects
Mental Disorders--Ireland
Ethnopsychology--Ireland
Platteland.
Schizofrenie.
Geestelijke gezondheid.
Anomie--Ireland
Rural Health--Ireland
Schizophrenia--Ireland
Social Environment--Ireland


Clochan (Kerry, Ireland)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Clochan (Ireland)--Social life and customs--20th century
Clochán (Kerry, Ireland)--Social life and customs--20th century