Exotic Deviance: Medicalizing Cultural Idioms--from Strangeness to Illness by Robert E. Bartholomew

Exotic Deviance: Medicalizing Cultural Idioms--from Strangeness to Illness

Robert E. Bartholomew

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This is a seminal study of Western psychiatric interpretations of some of the most bizarre behaviours so strange by modern Western standards that they are assumed to be illnesses of disorders - latah, koro, and dance mania. Psychiatrists making th...

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