Cosmos, gods and madmen : frameworks in the anthropologies of medicine

Cosmos, gods and madmen : frameworks in the anthropologies of medicine /

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and expl...

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Other Authors: Littlewood, Roland (Editor), Lynch, Rebecca (Research fellow) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Cosmology.
Anthropology, Medical
Religion and Medicine
cosmology.
73.61 science, medicine (ethnology)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > Healing.
Cosmology
Medical anthropology
Medicine > Religious aspects
Medical Anthropology, Healing, Diseases, Cosmologies, Medicine, Religion.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : divinity, disease, distress / Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch
  • Why animism matters / A. David Napier
  • Spreading the gospel of the miracle cure / Rodney J. Reynolds
  • Madness and miracles / Ursula M. Read
  • Sakawa rumours / Alice Armstrong
  • To heal the body is to heal oneself / Isabelle Lange
  • Addiction and the duality of the self in a North American religio-therapeutic community / Ellie Reynolds
  • Religious conversion and madness / David M.R. Orr
  • Cosmologies of fear / Rebecca Lynch
  • Functionalists and zombis / Roland Littlewood
  • Religion and psychosis / Simon Dein.

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