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Exotic Deviance: Medicalizing Cultural Idioms-From Strangeness to Illness
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Hardcover
from Univ Pr of Colorado (December 1, 2000)
9780870815973 | details & prices | 280 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $59.95
About: 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".
About: 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".