Author: George Devereux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mohave Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide
Author: George Devereux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mohave Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mohave Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Sucide: The Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe
Author: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau okf American Ethnology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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The Ethics of Suicide
Author: Margaret Pabst Battin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199385815
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199385815
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.
A Mohave War Reminiscence, 1854-1880
Author: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486281636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Based on the firsthand testimony of an elderly Mohave, this study examines intertribal conflicts as well as the effects on Mohave aggression from outside influences — in particular, the encroachment of Spanish culture, the relentless westward expansion by the US government, and the access to modern weapons. Extensive footnotes. 10 plates. 3 fold-out maps.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486281636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Based on the firsthand testimony of an elderly Mohave, this study examines intertribal conflicts as well as the effects on Mohave aggression from outside influences — in particular, the encroachment of Spanish culture, the relentless westward expansion by the US government, and the access to modern weapons. Extensive footnotes. 10 plates. 3 fold-out maps.
A Comparative Study of Yuman Consonantism
Author: Alan Campbell Wares
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111659070
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111659070
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide
Author: George Devereux
Publisher:
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Category : Coleccíon Psiquiatría
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
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Category : Coleccíon Psiquiatría
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective
Author: George N. Appell
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887066061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book explores choice behavior as constrained by culture, biology, and psychoanalytic processes in a variety of ethnographic contexts in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa--the arena in which the controversy between Derek Freeman and anthropologist Margaret Mead's ideas of culture first developed. It also examines the interface between a nomothetic anthropology and a hermeneutic, idiographic anthropology, raising the critical question as to how ethnographic "knowledge" of another culture is achieved and transmitted to others. Freeman rejects an exclusive reliance on either culture or biology as key to explaining human behavior, proposing instead an interactionist paradigm. Fundamental to this paradigm is choice behavior, which is intrinsic to our biology and basic to the formation of culture: for cultures are the accumulation of socially sanctioned past choices. However, the greater the freedom to choose, the greater the scope for good or bad, and the greater the need for ethics, rules, and laws for defining prohibited alternatives. Choice and Morality investigates these themes. Its authors examine the emergent nature of social reality as a result of choice behavior and illustrate the complexity of Freeman's theoretical position.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887066061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book explores choice behavior as constrained by culture, biology, and psychoanalytic processes in a variety of ethnographic contexts in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa--the arena in which the controversy between Derek Freeman and anthropologist Margaret Mead's ideas of culture first developed. It also examines the interface between a nomothetic anthropology and a hermeneutic, idiographic anthropology, raising the critical question as to how ethnographic "knowledge" of another culture is achieved and transmitted to others. Freeman rejects an exclusive reliance on either culture or biology as key to explaining human behavior, proposing instead an interactionist paradigm. Fundamental to this paradigm is choice behavior, which is intrinsic to our biology and basic to the formation of culture: for cultures are the accumulation of socially sanctioned past choices. However, the greater the freedom to choose, the greater the scope for good or bad, and the greater the need for ethics, rules, and laws for defining prohibited alternatives. Choice and Morality investigates these themes. Its authors examine the emergent nature of social reality as a result of choice behavior and illustrate the complexity of Freeman's theoretical position.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1990
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1990
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Stories from Italian Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals
Author: Jacopo Santambrogio
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031611292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031611292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
American Handbook of Psychiatry
Author: Silvano Arieti
Publisher: New York, Basic Books
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Basic Books
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description