Culture and panic disorder / edited by Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good

Published:: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Physical Description:: xxi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Hinton, Devon E. and Good, Byron

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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.

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ISBN:

9780804761086 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804761086 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804761093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804761094 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20089.

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Paterno Libraries Endowment

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