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Tables of Contents for Exotic Deviance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
 
Professor Peter Conrad
Preface
xiii
 
Acknowledgments
xvii
 
Western Medical Imperialism and the Politics of Psychiatric
1
38
Classification
Taxonomies as a Social Process
2
1
Human Diversity and the Western Medical Monopoly
2
4
Medicine as an Agent of Social Control
6
3
Psychiatry's Political and Contestable Nature
9
4
The Medicalization of ``Exotic'' Deviance
13
2
Divergent Deviance Orientations: Objectivist Versus Socially Designated Deviance
15
1
Objectivist Perspectives
16
6
Socially Designated Deviance Models
22
6
This Study's Approach
28
4
Notes
32
7
Disease, Disorder, or Deception: Latah as Habit and Fraud in a Malay Extended Family
39
18
Introduction to the Latah ``Disorder''
39
3
Survey Results of Latah in My Wife's Family
42
1
The Case of Siti
42
3
The Dubious History of Latah
45
2
The Medicalization of Habit
47
2
Western Double Standards and Medicalizing Fraud
49
2
Summary
51
1
Notes
52
5
From Idiom to Illness: The Western Construction of Latah
57
34
Latah: A Theoretical Overview
58
2
Disorder or Deviance?
60
3
Latah-Related Death and Serious Injury
63
6
Social Embarrassment and Latah
69
1
Latahlike Behaviors Worldwide: Universalism Versus Particularism
70
2
Hyperstartling, Jumping, and Latah
72
2
The Medicalization of Deviance
74
3
Latah and the ``Wild Man'' Idiom
77
4
Latah as a Product of Orientalist Discourse
81
4
Summary
85
1
Notes
86
5
Medicalizing Deviant Perceptual Sets and Sexual Worldviews: A Sociological Perspective on Epidemic Koro and Similar Collective Behaviors
91
36
The Psychiatric Status of Koro
91
5
Collective Koro
96
1
Historical Overview of ``Epidemic'' Koro
97
6
Magical Genitalia Loss in Nigeria
103
1
Social Pathology or Social Psychology?
104
2
Physiological Factors
106
1
``Epidemic'' Koro as a Social Delusion
107
5
Other Examples of Collective Misperception
112
4
Psychiatric Entity or the Consequences of Beliefs?
116
1
Summary
117
1
Notes
118
9
Medieval Dancing Manias as History-Specific Variants of ``Mass Psychogenic Illness'' : A Critique and Reappraisal
127
26
Dancing Mania as ``Epidemic Hysteria''
127
3
Theories of ``Mass Psychogenic Illness''
130
3
Tarantism
133
1
Anthropological and Political Aspects of ``MPI''
134
3
Dancing Manias
137
5
Female Susceptibility
142
2
Abnormal Personality Characteristics
144
2
Dancing Manias and Stress
146
1
Summary
146
1
Notes
147
6
Deconstructing ``Epidemic'' Conversion ``Hysteria'' in School Settings: A Cautionary Tale
153
54
Individual and Collective ``Hysteria''
154
2
Misuse of the Term Collective ``Hysteria''
156
3
Characteristic Features of Mass Conversion Reports in Schools
159
1
Theoretical Overview of Mass Conversion Reactions in Schools
160
5
Patterns
165
18
Communicable Conversion as a Unitary Entity
183
2
The Problematics of Mass Conversion Reactions
185
1
Misogynist Discourse Superimposed Onto a Psychiatric Syndrome
185
1
Innate Female Susceptibility
186
1
Do Females Have a Symbolic Identity?
187
4
Mass Motor ``Hysteria'' and Female Political Subordination
191
2
From Repressed Schoolgirls to Repressed Nuns
193
4
Abnormal Personality Traits
197
1
Stress
198
1
Summary
199
1
Notes
199
8
Psychiatric Imperialism and the Medicalization of Exotic Deviance
207
18
Latah as an Adaptive Idiom
209
2
Latah---the Great Malaysian Pastime
211
2
Epidemic Koro: The Logical Consequence of ``Exotic'' Beliefs
213
2
Medieval Dancing Manias as Exotic Ritual
215
1
Epidemic ``Hysteria'' as Myth: The Need for Caution
216
1
The Pattern in the Medicalization of Exotic Deviance
216
3
Medicalizing Foreign Cultures and the Historical Western ``Other''
219
3
Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems
222
1
Further Research: The Need for Ethnographic Familiarity and Self-Assessment
222
1
Notes
223
2
References
225
42
Index
267