WST 395 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vincent Van Gogh, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll
13 Mar 2017
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Hmong epileptics often become shamans. : their own illness gives them an intuitive sympathy to the suffering of others end lends them emotional credibility as healers. (21) Person of consequence (21: person has some type of authority in the community, the lees reacted to lia"s condition with a mixture of concern and pride (21) Electrochemical storm inside their daughter"s head that had been stirred up by the misfiring of aberrant brain cells (28: not a spiritual condition, but a neurological one Which leads to a clash between the doctors & family. Explanatory models for illness: fadiman notes that jeanine hilt, the social worker, was the only american who ever asked the lees what they thought was the cause of their daughter"s illness. (22) until fadiman comes along. She also asks them about this, and her book provides the answer. Epileptics in history: greeks called epilepsy the sacred disease (29)
