... interviews used in this chapter show that the sexual exploitation of female dancers, even in the most rural areas, largely created moral disorder and fostered negative sentiments in local communities, thus undermining the nationalist project. The chapter argues that the complex engagement of these women with...

... This chapter explores how the women living in the daily-rent hotels experienced mental health crises and psychiatric care in the context of ongoing stimulant use. Today, posttraumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder are diagnosed at very high frequency, and the prescription of broad...

... This chapter explores the many ways that combat has transformed soldiers’ experiences of being in the world. In the case of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, transformations other than bodily injury are overwhelmingly described in terms of posttraumatic stress disorder. This chapter seeks...