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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493693003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-178-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/61

Soggetti

Medical anthropology

Medicine - Religious aspects

Cosmology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Why Animism Matters; Chapter 2. Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure; Chapter 3. Madness and Miracles; Chapter 4. 'Sakawa' Rumours ; Chapter 5. To Heal the Body; Chapter 6. Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio-Therapeutic Community; Chapter 7. Religious Conversion and Madness; Chapter 8. Cosmologies of Fear; Chapter 9. Functionalists and Zombis ; Chapter 10. Religion and Psychosis; Index