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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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Western Medical Imperialism and the Politics of Psychiatric |
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Taxonomies as a Social Process |
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Human Diversity and the Western Medical Monopoly |
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Medicine as an Agent of Social Control |
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6 | (3) |
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Psychiatry's Political and Contestable Nature |
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9 | (4) |
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The Medicalization of ``Exotic'' Deviance |
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13 | (2) |
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Divergent Deviance Orientations: Objectivist Versus Socially Designated Deviance |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (6) |
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Socially Designated Deviance Models |
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22 | (6) |
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28 | (4) |
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32 | (7) |
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Disease, Disorder, or Deception: Latah as Habit and Fraud in a Malay Extended Family |
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39 | (18) |
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Introduction to the Latah ``Disorder'' |
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39 | (3) |
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Survey Results of Latah in My Wife's Family |
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42 | (1) |
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42 | (3) |
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The Dubious History of Latah |
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45 | (2) |
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The Medicalization of Habit |
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47 | (2) |
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Western Double Standards and Medicalizing Fraud |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (5) |
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From Idiom to Illness: The Western Construction of Latah |
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57 | (34) |
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Latah: A Theoretical Overview |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (3) |
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Latah-Related Death and Serious Injury |
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63 | (6) |
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Social Embarrassment and Latah |
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69 | (1) |
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Latahlike Behaviors Worldwide: Universalism Versus Particularism |
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70 | (2) |
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Hyperstartling, Jumping, and Latah |
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72 | (2) |
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The Medicalization of Deviance |
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74 | (3) |
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Latah and the ``Wild Man'' Idiom |
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77 | (4) |
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Latah as a Product of Orientalist Discourse |
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81 | (4) |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (5) |
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Medicalizing Deviant Perceptual Sets and Sexual Worldviews: A Sociological Perspective on Epidemic Koro and Similar Collective Behaviors |
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91 | (36) |
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The Psychiatric Status of Koro |
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91 | (5) |
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96 | (1) |
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Historical Overview of ``Epidemic'' Koro |
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97 | (6) |
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Magical Genitalia Loss in Nigeria |
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103 | (1) |
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Social Pathology or Social Psychology? |
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104 | (2) |
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106 | (1) |
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``Epidemic'' Koro as a Social Delusion |
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107 | (5) |
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Other Examples of Collective Misperception |
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112 | (4) |
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Psychiatric Entity or the Consequences of Beliefs? |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (9) |
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Medieval Dancing Manias as History-Specific Variants of ``Mass Psychogenic Illness'' : A Critique and Reappraisal |
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127 | (26) |
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Dancing Mania as ``Epidemic Hysteria'' |
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127 | (3) |
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Theories of ``Mass Psychogenic Illness'' |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (1) |
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Anthropological and Political Aspects of ``MPI'' |
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134 | (3) |
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137 | (5) |
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142 | (2) |
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Abnormal Personality Characteristics |
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144 | (2) |
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Dancing Manias and Stress |
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146 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (6) |
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Deconstructing ``Epidemic'' Conversion ``Hysteria'' in School Settings: A Cautionary Tale |
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153 | (54) |
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Individual and Collective ``Hysteria'' |
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154 | (2) |
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Misuse of the Term Collective ``Hysteria'' |
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156 | (3) |
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Characteristic Features of Mass Conversion Reports in Schools |
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159 | (1) |
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Theoretical Overview of Mass Conversion Reactions in Schools |
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160 | (5) |
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165 | (18) |
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Communicable Conversion as a Unitary Entity |
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183 | (2) |
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The Problematics of Mass Conversion Reactions |
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185 | (1) |
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Misogynist Discourse Superimposed Onto a Psychiatric Syndrome |
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185 | (1) |
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Innate Female Susceptibility |
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186 | (1) |
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Do Females Have a Symbolic Identity? |
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187 | (4) |
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Mass Motor ``Hysteria'' and Female Political Subordination |
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191 | (2) |
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From Repressed Schoolgirls to Repressed Nuns |
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193 | (4) |
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Abnormal Personality Traits |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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199 | (8) |
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Psychiatric Imperialism and the Medicalization of Exotic Deviance |
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207 | (18) |
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Latah as an Adaptive Idiom |
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209 | (2) |
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Latah---the Great Malaysian Pastime |
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211 | (2) |
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Epidemic Koro: The Logical Consequence of ``Exotic'' Beliefs |
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213 | (2) |
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Medieval Dancing Manias as Exotic Ritual |
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215 | (1) |
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Epidemic ``Hysteria'' as Myth: The Need for Caution |
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216 | (1) |
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The Pattern in the Medicalization of Exotic Deviance |
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216 | (3) |
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Medicalizing Foreign Cultures and the Historical Western ``Other'' |
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219 | (3) |
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Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems |
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222 | (1) |
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Further Research: The Need for Ethnographic Familiarity and Self-Assessment |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (2) |
| References |
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225 | (42) |
| Index |
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