Nicole Rust on Nostr: Books written by anthropologists embedded with scientists? I'm reading a book about ...
Books written by anthropologists embedded with scientists?
I'm reading a book about an anthropologist who embedded with psychiatrists for several years to figure out how they are trained an what they think. Here's a great quote:
"Sometimes they talk about mental anguish as if it were cardiac disease: you treat it with medication, rest, and advice about the right way to eat and live. A person who has had a heart attack will never be the same—he will be always a person who has been very seriously ill—but he is not his heart attack. His heart attack is in the body, not the mind. When psychiatrists talk in this manner, psychosis and depression become likewise written on the body ... Sometimes, though, psychiatrists talk about distress as something much more complicated, something that involves the kind of person you are: your intentions, your loves and hates, your messy, complicated past ... From this vantage point, mental illness is in your mind and in your emotional reactions to other people. It is your “you.”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/104443/of-two-minds-by-t-m-luhrmann/
In it, Luhrmann references another book in which an anthropologist embedded with nuclear weapons researchers:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520213739/nuclear-rites
I'm so curious about this genre. Are there other books like it that you know and would recommend?
I'm reading a book about an anthropologist who embedded with psychiatrists for several years to figure out how they are trained an what they think. Here's a great quote:
"Sometimes they talk about mental anguish as if it were cardiac disease: you treat it with medication, rest, and advice about the right way to eat and live. A person who has had a heart attack will never be the same—he will be always a person who has been very seriously ill—but he is not his heart attack. His heart attack is in the body, not the mind. When psychiatrists talk in this manner, psychosis and depression become likewise written on the body ... Sometimes, though, psychiatrists talk about distress as something much more complicated, something that involves the kind of person you are: your intentions, your loves and hates, your messy, complicated past ... From this vantage point, mental illness is in your mind and in your emotional reactions to other people. It is your “you.”
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/104443/of-two-minds-by-t-m-luhrmann/
In it, Luhrmann references another book in which an anthropologist embedded with nuclear weapons researchers:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520213739/nuclear-rites
I'm so curious about this genre. Are there other books like it that you know and would recommend?