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Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness

Excerpts from a translated Burmese text on what it termed the 'madness disease'is provide and commented on. It is asserted that the text confuses between causes, symptoms, etiology and treatment of the diseases but a classification can be made that the traditional text postulates that the...

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Main Author: Myint, Zan
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Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2010
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spelling my.unimas.ir.17762015-07-27T01:39:07Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1776/ Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness Myint, Zan H Social Sciences (General) Excerpts from a translated Burmese text on what it termed the 'madness disease'is provide and commented on. It is asserted that the text confuses between causes, symptoms, etiology and treatment of the diseases but a classification can be made that the traditional text postulates that the causes of what it called the 'madness disease'can be divided into (a) physiological (b) psychological and (c)'esoteric'components. The text gives the most emphasis on madness being an 'affliction'which was caused when the subject is 'seized'or ... Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2010 E-Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1776/1/analysis%2Bon%2Baspects%2Btraditional%2B%2528abstract%2529.pdf Myint, Zan (2010) Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness. Akademika (Journal of Southeast Asia Social Science and Humanities), 78. pp. 15-35. ISSN 0126-5008 https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=AEMsFG8AAAAJ&citation_for_view=AEMsFG8AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC
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Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness
description Excerpts from a translated Burmese text on what it termed the 'madness disease'is provide and commented on. It is asserted that the text confuses between causes, symptoms, etiology and treatment of the diseases but a classification can be made that the traditional text postulates that the causes of what it called the 'madness disease'can be divided into (a) physiological (b) psychological and (c)'esoteric'components. The text gives the most emphasis on madness being an 'affliction'which was caused when the subject is 'seized'or ...
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title Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness
title_short Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness
title_full Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness
title_fullStr Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness
title_full_unstemmed Analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness
title_sort analysis on aspects of traditional ('indigenous') and western-based thinking in the classical and modern burmese elites' discourse concerning madness
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2010
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1776/1/analysis%2Bon%2Baspects%2Btraditional%2B%2528abstract%2529.pdf
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