{"product_id":"saints-scholars-and-schizophrenics-mental-illness-in-rural-ireland-9780520034440","title":"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland\u003c\/strong\u003e by Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780520034440.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic - a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of \"Ballybran,\" a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the communitys decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of child rearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia. Following a recent return to \"Ballybran,\" Scheper-Hughes reflects in a lengthy new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44988021473333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520034449","price":226.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520034440_36d8ac3a-2a8a-4522-862f-f182c37ed188.jpg?v=1778943955","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/saints-scholars-and-schizophrenics-mental-illness-in-rural-ireland-9780520034440","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}