Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : panic disorder in cross-cultural and historical perspective / Byron J. Good and Devon E. Hinton -- Theoretical perspectives on the cross-cultural study of panic disorder / Laurence J. Kirmayer and Caminee Blake -- A medical anthropology of panic sensations : ten analytic perspectives / Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good -- The irritable heart syndrome in the American Civil War / Robert Kugelmann -- Twentieth-century theories of panic in the United States : from cardiac vulnerability to catastrophic cognitions / Devon E. Hinton and Susan D. Hinton -- Comparative phenomenology of ataques de nervios, panic attacks, and panic disorder / Roberto Lewis-Fernández ... [et al.] -- Dizziness and panic in China : organ and ontological disequilibrium / Lawrence Park and Devon E. Hinton -- Gendered panic in southern Thailand : lom ("wind") illness and wuup ("upsurge") illness / Pichet Udomratn and Devon E. Hinton -- Ihahamuka, a Rwandan syndrome of response to the genocide : blocked flow, spirit assault, and shortness of breath / Athanase Hagengimana and Devon E. Hinton -- Panic illness in Tibetan refugees / Eric Jacobson.

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