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Title: Of Spirits and Madness : An American Psychiatrist in Africa by Paul R. Linde ISBN: 0-07-140799-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must Read
Comment: I have worked in Zimbabwe for two years as a photographer and film maker. Of Spirits and Madness gives western thinking a new vantage point. Remember, there is no reality only perception. One of the best books I have read on Shona culture. The spiritual basis of life forms all other truths in Africa. Great Book, wonderful to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding
Comment: I bought this book to be polite. When a friend of 10+ years writes a book... you buy it. And the day before his reading... you start the first chapter. What I did not expect was that I would absolutely inhale the text. My brain lit up with pleasure. There are so many good things about this book. Not only is the writing itself excellent, the information that Paul tucks into the narratives of each patient is downright fascinating. He takes up politics, economics, spirituality, culture, context, and mental health. The story of each patient's illness is refracted through Paul's Western training, his good heart, and his growing understanding of the local explanations for why things happen as they do. Along the way he provides a terrific set of curbside lectures about a wide spectrum of mental illnesses. He interweaves factual information about disease states with tender compassion for and curiosity about the people he served. I learned a lot from this book and plan to read it again. Maybe I should be polite more often....
Rating: 5
Summary: Ancestor Bewichment Clashes with Modern Medicine.
Comment: Dr. Paul Linde's book "Of Spirits and Madness" is a wonderfully entertaining and insightful look into the culture and psyche of the Zimbabwean people. As an American psychiatrist in this third world African country, he becomes immersed in a cultural quagmire of ancestral spirits, evangelical Christianity and traditional healers all colliding with modern Western medical practices. The results, a train wreck of frequently amusing and sometimes very sad situations: experienes which challenged the author's intellectual and medical skills while raising questions in his own mind about the modern world's pursuit of indivudual gain and blatant consumption. This is a great book which will make all readers laugh, think and reevaluate one's own views of what is truly important. The best book I've read this year!
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Title: The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease by Robert Klitzman ISBN: 0738206148 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: MAN AND MICROBES: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times by Arno Karlen ISBN: 0684822709 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 22 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases by Philip Yam ISBN: 0387955089 Publisher: Copernicus Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa by Katherine Dettwyler ISBN: 088133748X Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective by Ann McElroy, Patricia K. Townsend ISBN: 0813338212 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $42.00 |
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