Cosmos, gods and madmen : frameworks in the anthropologies of medicine / edited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch.

Date:
2016
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Publication/Creation

New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

Physical description

214 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    BU /LIT
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ISBN

  • 9781785331770
  • 1785331779