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

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 onese...

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Contributors: Littlewood, Roland 1947- (Editor) ; Lynch, Rebecca (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ethnic medicine / Religion / Cosmology
B Ethnic medicine / Religion / Ritual / Miraculous healing
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Cosmology
B Religion and Medicine
B Medical anthropology
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2016]
ISBN:1785331779