Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics

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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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Other Editions

• Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural IrelandUniversity of California Press2001-01-01
• Saints, scholars and schizophrenics1979-01-01
• Saints, scholars, and schizophrenicsUniversity of California Press1979-01-01
• Saints, scholars, and schizophrenicsUniversity of California Press1979-01-01
• Saints, scholars and schizophrenicsUniversity of California Press1982-01-01
• Saints, Scholars, and SchizophrenicsPaperbackUniversity of California Press1983-01-18