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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril."
- Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900),
The Picture of Dorian Gray,
the preface
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ZIN Product Number: 10013568
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Textbook Hardcover, 1st ed., 2
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071367349
Release Date: Jan 8, 2001
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Written in the spirit of Oliver Sacks, Of Spirits and Madness takes us on an adventure into medicine and the mind. With sensitivity, good humor, and growing insight, Linde tells the stories of his patients, their demons and their difficulties. We meet Winston Chivero, a self-mutilator who sticks needles and nails into his shin and blames the wounds on witchcraft; Sister Pagomo, a nurse's aide who suffers from kufungisisa, the ailment of "thinking too much"; Esther Mawena, a demoralized young woman who tries to kill herself after her husband infects her with the virus that causes AIDS; Samuel Rugare, a farm laborer driven to mbanje madness after smoking too much cannabis; and many others.
In each of these cases, Linde acts as a doctor-detective in the nebulous world of psychiatry. He invites the reader in on the challenge of solving psychiatric puzzles. With limited information, he embarks each time on a process of scrambling, asking dozens of questions through an interpreter, with the clock ticking. And all the while, as Linde is sorting through possible diagnoses and psychotropic medications (and negotiating tea-times, elaborate greeting rituals, and other cultural quirks of the Shona people), he is haunted by the desire to unearth a case of true bewitchment.
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In his search for answers, Linde becomes a practitioner of the "new cross-cultural psychiatry," with his long-held assumptions about the nature of psychosis turned upside-down. In this vivid portrait of life and work in remote Africa, Linde presents a wry and inspiring tale of medicine at the crossroads of two cultures.
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-- Of Spirits & Madness" opens a win, I> —Abraham Verghese
Ancestral Bewitchment Clashes with Modern Medicine
-- Blake Olson, an avid book reader, October 31, 2001
| |  | | | | Preface | vii | | Acknowledgments | xiii | | Chapter 1 | "Sister, Who's Our First Patient?" Tichaona Machewa: A Garden-Variety Manic | 1 | | Chapter 2 | "He's Not Crazy, He's Delirious!" Joshua Mujombe: Death Doesn't Go on Strike | 23 | | Chapter 3 | "It's Ten O'clock, Where Are My Interns?" Doctor Gwanzura: A Big Breadwinner | 43 | | Chapter 4 | "He Brought the Virus Home." Esther Mawena: The Bride Price, a Death Sentence | 67 | | Chapter 5 | "Paranoid as Hell." Happy Mufananidza: AIDS in the Brain | 91 | | Chapter 6 | "A Bewitchment?" Constance Marondera: Catatonic, but Why? | 103 | | Chapter 7 | "You What? You Need to Rest Your Mind?" Sister Pagomo: A Case of Kufungisisa | 143 | | Chapter 8 | "There Are No Guarantees." Mister Dube: Nearly Scared to Death | 177 | | Chapter 9 | "A Sleepy Guy with a Head Full of Weed and Thorazine." Samuel Rugare: A Case of Mbanje Madness | 213 | | Chapter 10 | "So, You Want Another Operation?" Winston Chivero: Self-Mutilator with a Cause | 235 | | Chapter 11 | "You Ask a Lot of Questions, You Know That?" Wonder Kasimonje: Redemption Is Where You Find It | 257 |
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