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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Littlewood, Roland, editor.

Lynch, Rebecca (Research fellow), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Medicine--Religious aspects.

Medicine.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785331787

1785331787