| Description |
xxi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : panic disorder in cross-cultural and historical perspective / Byron J. Good and Devon E. Hinton -- Theoretical perspectives on the cross-cultural study of panic disorder / Laurence J. Kirmayer and Caminee Blake -- A medical anthropology of panic sensations : ten analytic perspectives / Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good -- The irritable heart syndrome in the American Civil War / Robert Kugelmann -- Twentieth-century theories of panic in the United States : from cardiac vulnerability to catastrophic cognitions / Devon E. Hinton and Susan D. Hinton -- Comparative phenomenology of ataques de nervios, panic attacks, and panic disorder / Roberto Lewis-Fernández ... [et al.] -- Dizziness and panic in China : organ and ontological disequilibrium / Lawrence Park and Devon E. Hinton -- Gendered panic in southern Thailand : lom ("wind") illness and wuup ("upsurge") illness / Pichet Udomratn and Devon E. Hinton -- Ihahamuka, a Rwandan syndrome of response to the genocide : blocked flow, spirit assault, and shortness of breath / Athanase Hagengimana and Devon E. Hinton -- Panic illness in Tibetan refugees / Eric Jacobson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Panic disorders -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Panic disorders -- Diagnosis -- History.
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Cultural psychiatry.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Medical anthropology.
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Panic Disorder.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Ethnopsychology.
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| Author |
Hinton, Devon E.
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Good, Byron.
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| LC no. |
2008047519 |
| ISBN |
9780804761086 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0804761086 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780804761093 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0804761094 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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