The geography of madness : penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes

The geography of madness Penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes

Frank Bures

Book - 2016

"Jon Ronson meets David Grann in this fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us go totally insane The Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culture-bound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they're in good physical shape? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures travels around the world to trace culture-bound syndromes to their sources--and in the process, tells a remarkable story about the strange things all of us believe"--

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Subjects
Ethnology.
Ethnopsychology.
Human geography.
Medical anthropology.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Published
Brooklyn, NY ; London : Melville House 2016.
Language
English
Main Author
Frank Bures (-)
Physical Description
xiii, 241 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-231) and index.
ISBN
9781612193724
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Case of the Missing Manhood
  • 2. Following Threads
  • 3. Culture Bound
  • 4. Modern Minds
  • 5. Savage Minds
  • 6. Bad Buns
  • 7. American Maladies
  • 8. Mingling Medicines
  • 9. Strange Loops
  • 10. The Dragon's Tail
  • 11. The Chains That Bind Us
  • 12. The Worm Turns
  • 13. Beyond Belief
  • 14. To the Sea
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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