Professor Vieda Skultans
BA Hons. (London), Ph.d. (Wales)
Office: 3E3, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 9289022
Email: v.skultans@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests
Cross-cultural psychiatry especially in relation to gender, Medical Anthropology, Narrative Theory, Social Memory.
Current Research
- Economic change, conceptions of the self and psychiatric understandings
- Stigmatization of women's mental illness in India
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: Understanding Madness; Gender Relations
Postgraduate: Narrating the Self
Recent Publications
- Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology, published by Berghahn, 2007.
- Narrative Research in Health and Illness. Oxford: Blackwell & BMJ Books (co-edited with Brian Hurwitz and Trisha Greenhalgh, 2004)
- Edited and introduced special issue of Anthropology and Medicine on ‘Culture and Medical/Psychiatric Narratives’, 11 (2).
- 2003 'From Damaged nerves to masked depression: inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives', Social Science and Medicine, 56: 2421- 2431
- 2003 edited special issue of Anthropology and Medicine on Psychiatry and the Uses of Narrative with an editorial introduction on Culture and Dialogue in Medical Psychiatric Narratives 10(2): 155-165
- 2000 edited with John Cox Anthropology and Psychological Medicine. Crossing Bridges London: Jessica Kingsley
- 1999 'Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past', Sociology of Health and Illness, 21(3):310-328
- 1998 The Testimony of Lives. Narrative and Memory in Post Soviet Latvia, Routledge