Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded
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When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic-a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of “Ballybran,” a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community’s decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of childrearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia. Following a recent return to “Ballybran,” Scheper-Hughes reflects in a new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 20th ed. edition (16 Jan. 2001), University of California Press |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 418 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0520224809 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0520224803 |
| Dimensions | 15.24 x 2.29 x 22.86 cm |
by Teresa Molloy
a gift
by M. Andersen
It’s easy to understand why the people of this rural region in Ireland strongly objected to Scheper-Hughes’ conclusions, written after living closely with the community for a year in the 1970s and brought up to date in the latest edition. As an Irish woman living far from my native country, I found “Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland” absolutely fascinating, at times deeply sad but throughout I recognised behaviour and consequences prevalent in a different region of the island and indeed in other isolated communities in other parts of the world. Scheper-Hughes writes engagingly and brings to life the various personalities so that, once begun, this is a book that is difficult to set aside, with conclusions that stay with the reader long afterwards.
by Marty Mar
A bit drawn out
by Francis
Brilliant book,Schepper Hughes was twenty years ahead of her time.
by Fiona jones
Great read.
by Bernadettte Spring
a very good book, a book that you would need to take a break from but gives a good insight into rural life
by Helen Mullally
5 star