| #1404676 in Books | 2016-11-16 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.30 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 144 pages|||I would certainly use this book for teaching undergraduates and graduates. Khan should be commended for skillfully weaving her way through a minefield of debates, controversies, and the thorny and controverted discourses that clash between the professions. (Ar
This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial frameworks, allowing readers to...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights | Nichola Khan.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.