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The Geography of Madness

Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes

ISBN-13: 9781612193724

Contributor(s): Frank Bures

Subject: Travel Writing

Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing

Publication Date: 28-04-2016

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£20.99

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About the book

Travel writer Frank Bures investigates the strange phenomenon of 'culture-bound' syndromes across the world: illnesses with a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are only considered to be a disease within a specific society or culture. They are found across the world within cultures and viewed from outside can seem both mysterious and odd. Bures has travelled worldwide and recounts strange cases such as voodoo death and penis theft. He investigates epidemics that seem like madness to outsiders but all-too-real to those experiencing them.