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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York Oxford
Berghahn Books
[2016]
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| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2016] |
| ISBN: | 1785331779 |