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Series: [sic] Series
Published: 10 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373384-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7338-4
Published: 03 April 2006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8800-5
Published: 14 July 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372905-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7290-5
Series: [sic] Series
Published: 02 May 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387602-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8760-2
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Published: 25 June 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384557-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8455-7
Series: New Americanists
Published: 06 October 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380641-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8064-1
Published: 01 January 1997
DOI: 10.1215/9780822379683-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7968-3
Published: 24 August 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478012405-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1240-5
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 04 February 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022282-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2228-2
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059325-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5932-5
... Jonathan Sadowsky, “Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology”: According to the WHO, depression is the greatest contributor to the global health burden. The change is sometimes stark. In Africa, colonial Western observers believed that depression was rare or nonexistent...
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059325-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5932-5
... Matthew M. Heaton, “Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial Survey in Nigeria”: In 1959, students at five all-male secondary schools in Nigeria received questionnaires from Raymond Prince, a Canadian psychiatrist temporarily attached to Aro Mental Hospital...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 11 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375746-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7574-6
... for impotence, yijing was conceptualized as a symptom of Maoist socialism, when sexual desire was discouraged, whereas impotence became a symptom of the post-Mao reform, as public perception of sexual desire had changed from negative to positive. In the Maoist period (particularly in the Cultural Revolution...
Published: 18 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373629-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7362-9
... on the arguments of Viktoria Schmitt-Linsonoff, this Cold War blockbuster is better viewed not so much as a token of American triumphalism but as a covert symptom of American trauma. The nature of this trauma is complex, occasioned by the war itself, the revelation of genocide, the new threat of nuclear...
Published: 10 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373049-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7304-9
...” that emerges from the work of form and renders the reader herself a symptom. In a close reading of Louis Althusser’s Reading Capital , she focuses on Althusser’s figure, “the play on words itself,” to disclose the way in which the act of reading both discloses and is taken by surprise by the work of form...
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5932-5
... is then the expression of a desire to belong, to be symbolically capable of competing, be it with the status of the colonizer. psychiatry delirium daily life colonialism Madagascar Jonathan Sadowsky, “Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology”: According to the WHO, depression...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373094-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... of doing science. It explores instead the global ramifications of the controversy, from Cameroon to California, taking Vanhivax as a symptom of contemporary, global transformations in global biomedicine. medical research Africa Afrocentrism HIV biocapitalism ...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 11 February 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7574-6
...) and the increase in patient visits for impotence, yijing was conceptualized as a symptom of Maoist socialism, when sexual desire was discouraged, whereas impotence became a symptom of the post-Mao reform, as public perception of sexual desire had changed from negative to positive. In the Maoist period...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... of one, two, or even three of their children. In Muaina, Florencia Macotera and Indalesio Pizarro recounted the strange symptoms that killed nine-year-old Dalvi and twenty-two-year-old Mamerto, the latter a university student and emerging leader. The last case concerns Mamerto's wife, Elbia Torres Rivas...
Published: 01 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027676-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
... state. In the post-World War II United States, both allegations of conspiracy and dismissals of “conspiracy theory” have become part of a robust discourse on human agency, sovereign power, and the health of the public sphere. Conspiracy discourse is a symptom of the conditions of knowledge in a security...
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By Mark Seltzer
Published: 08 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374459-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... as a way of modeling modernity and as one of its symptoms. The relays between game and world in the official world is examined in several different scenes, including Patricia Highsmith’s suspense novel Ripley’s Game , anime-based film, and a range of realist fiction (William Dean Howells, Theodore...