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BUTTERFLY AND THE SERPENT:
Essays in Psychiatry, Race and Religion AUTHOR: Littlewood, Roland ISBN hb: 1 85343 399 3 ISBN pb: 1 85343 400 0 PAGES: 320 LIST PRICE hb: £ 40.00 ($55.00) LIST PRICE pb: £ 15.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: April 1998
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TITLE: THE
BUTTERFLY AND THE SERPENT:
Essays in Psychiatry, Race and Religion AUTHOR: Littlewood, Roland ISBN hb: 1 85343 399 3 ISBN pb: 1 85343 400 0 PAGES: 320 LIST PRICE hb: £ 40.00 ($55.00) LIST PRICE pb: £ 15.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: April 1998
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| DESCRIPTION: In the last twenty
years cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology have become firmly established
as academic and clinical disciplines in the UK and North America. Through
his research and his writings, Roland Littlewood has emerged as one of
the leading and most distinguished contributors to the field of cultural
psychiatry. This collection ranges across culture, history, language,
religion, and gender and present material from several continents. All
of them provide clear theoretical positions through accessible narrative
accounts. For students, teachers and researchers in psychiatry, medicine,
social anthropology, ethnic and racial studies, and medical sociology,
this provides an outstanding and original overview of this fascinating
and rapidly developing area.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Roland Littlewood,
Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at University College London is
the co-author of the ground-breaking Aliens and Alienists. During his distinguished
career, he was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1994-97.
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