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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
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©2016

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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 explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.
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Subject Medical anthropology.
Medical anthropology.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Cosmology.
Cosmology.
cosmology.
73.61 science, medicine (ethnology)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
MEDICAL -- Healing.
Added Author Littlewood, Roland, editor.
Lynch, Rebecca (Research fellow), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cosmos, gods and madmen. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016 9781785331770 (DLC) 2015046285 (OCoLC)929589794
ISBN 9781785331787 (electronic book)
1785331787 (electronic book)
9781785331770
1785331779