Analysis on aspects of traditional (‘indigenous’) and western thinking in the classical and modern Burmese elites’ discourse concerning madness.
English translations of excerpts from a translated traditional medical text in Burmese on what it termed the ‘madness disease’ is provided and commented on. It is asserted that the text confuses between causes, symptoms, etiology and treatment of mental disorders. As to the nature of ‘the cause’ of...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/595/1/1.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/595/ http://www.ukm.my/~penerbit/akademika |
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