The work of indebtedness: The traumatic present of late capitalist Chile

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-187

  Han, Clara ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropology of suffering; Chilean society; indebtedness; neoliberalism; posttraumatic stress disorder; subjectivity; trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILE; CONVALESCENCE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM;

CAPITALISM; CHILE; FEMALE; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 3242677969     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEDI.0000034409.70790.66     Document Type: Article

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