The Geography of Madness
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- Titel: The Geography of Madness : Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes / Frank Bures
- Person(en): Bures, Frank
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2016
- ISBN/Preis: 9781612193731 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Nonfiction ; Sociology ; Travel ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=ED11BC47-880C-4B4E-84AB-3D209C82B2F7 Excerpt
Inhalt: Jon Ronson meets David Grann in this fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us go totally insaneThe Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culture-bound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they're in good physical shape? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures travels around the world to trace culture-bound syndromes to their sources—and in the process, tells a remarkable story about the strange things all of us believe.
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