The Geography of Madness
Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes
by Frank Bures
Recommended by Ramit Sethi and Ben Carlson
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Travel, and Psychology.
Jon Ronson meets David Grann in this fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us go totally insaneThe Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culturebound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their...
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