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"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor, Alison Krogel, Anna Meigs, Bianca Brijnath, Carlos Larrea, Carole M Counihan, Catherine J Allen, Catherine J Allen, Christine Greenway, Constance Classen, David M. R. Orr, David MR Orr, Derek Summerfield, Derek Summerfield, Duncan Pedersen, Elizabeth Cartwright, Emily Yates-Doerr, Gaithri A Fernando, Hermilio Valdizán, Irene Silverblatt, Javier Saavedra, Judith K Bass, Katherine Sohrsdahl, Krista E Vleet van, Laurence J Kirmayer, Lesley Jo Weaver, Libbet Crandon-Malamud, Mary Weismantel, Mary Weismantel, María Tapias, Michael Goddard, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Neely Laurenzo Myers, Parin Dossa, Peter Gose, Sarah Lund Skar, Sharon Alane Abramowitz, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ursula Read, WHO, Xavier Ricard Lanata   +40 more
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Mental Illnesses in the Middle Ages and their Reflection in the South Slavonic Hagiographic Literature

Studia Ceranea, 2021
The main points are related to the cultural-anthropological (Michel Foucault) and theological contextualization of diseases (Jean-Claude Larchet) and their treatment in the Middle Ages.
Ekaterina Todorova
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ORALITY AS THE REPRESENTATION OF MADNESS IN THE POEM HOWL BY ALLEN GINSBERG

Humaniora, 2013
This paper examines the characteristics of orality as the representation of madness in the poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Orality and madness are two major aspects of Beat literary tradition.
Randy Ridwansyah
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‘One must eliminate the effects of … diffuse circulation [and] their unstable and dangerous coagulation’: Foucault and beyond the stopping of mobilities [PDF]

, 2014
Foucault spent time investigating the stopping of mobilities, notably when studying carceral spaces such as asylums and prisons which effectively immobilise their inmates at a societal scale. In Discipline and Punish, he speculates on how such spaces are
Philo, Chris
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Folie et trauma dans Un jour de grand soleil sur les montagnes de l’Éthiopie : une esthétique de l’indicible

Itinéraires, 2019
In stable governments, different public institutions are responsible for containing madness on the margins of society. In the light of normative concepts, madness would be the opposite of reason. However, when the State itself is the source of psychosis,
Aurélia Mouzet
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Myxoedema madness [PDF]

BMJ Case Reports, 2010
A 59-year-old man was referred for Mental Health Act Assessment following several months of ‘odd behaviour’ and self-neglect reported by his neighbours. He presented as unkempt and expressed delusional ideas with respect to age, employment and identity of family members.
Laura, Azzopardi, Charlotte, Murfin, Amit, Sharda, Nanda, De Silva   +3 more
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Into the Deep End: From Madness-as-Strategy to Madness-as-Right

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
A central notion in Mad Pride activism is that “madness is a natural reaction” (Curtis et al. 2000, 22). In Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022), Justin Garson provides a compelling exploration and defence of this idea through the book’s central ...
Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo
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Strategy, Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Allure of Madness

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Justin Garson introduces the distinction between two views on Madness we encounter again and again throughout history: Madness as dysfunction, and Madness as strategy.
Sofia Jeppsson, Paul Lodge
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“Stark Raving Sane”: A Deconstructionist Reading of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Anafora, 2021
The focus of this study is the theme of Hamlet’s madness in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which as a play based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, provides a critique on this theme through the perspective of Ros and Guil, who, by means of a
Sayyed Rahim Moosavinia, Fatemeh Raeisi
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Szaleństwo w kostiumie. Metateatralność Henryka IV Luigiego Pirandella

Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2021
The aim of this article is to explore the theatrical nature of madness in one of Luigi Pirandello’s most famous characters: Henry IV. For the purposes of this paper I denominate his state “madness in costume”, for a number of reasons.
Aleksandra Koman
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