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Enterprising Linde
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Healer, Author, Radio Host
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"OF SPIRITS AND MADNESS: AN AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIST IN AFRICA"
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"This fascinating and entertaining book should be required reading for anyone (especially in the medical profession) interested in the politics and personal stories of the cultural divide. Forecast: As Africa's AIDS crisis worsens, expect Linde to become a media figure. The soaring word-of-mouth success of Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, on a similar topic, has paved the way for medical pop-cultural studies."
-- Publishers Weekly
"One must admire Dr. Linde's ability to adapt, to listen and learn, to empathize with what is foreign to him, and to make friends, sometimes across surprising boundaries: an exemplar of 'the good doctor'".
-- The New England Journal of Medicine
"Of Spirits and Madness opens a window into a culture at once alien and yet strangely familiar. Linde's book makes for a compelling narrative."
-- Abraham Verghese, MD, Author of My Own Country and The Tennis Partner
"Revealing glimpses, sometimes amusing, sometimes appalling, of a world where spirits are accepted as a part of everyday life."
-- Kirkus
"This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained."
-- Journal of the American Medical Association
"This is a compelling story and Linde is an excellent guide into a world that seems at first unbelievable but eventually becomes strangely recognizable in its human suffering."
-- San Jose Mercury News
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