#1240 Roy Richard Grinker - Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. Roy Richard Grinker. He is professor of anthropology and international affairs at the George Washington University. And today we're going to talk about his book, Nobody is Normal.
how culture created the stigma of mental illness. So Dr. Dr. Grinker, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one.
Yeah, thank you for having me. So um since you are a cultural anthropologist, how do you approach the topic of mental illness from the point of view of cultural anthropology? I mean what kinds of questions can cultural anthropology answer on this topic? I think it's important to uh recognize that all forms of life, uh, whether it's a medical illness uh like a cancer or an infection uh or a mental illness all of these uh experiences
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