Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change : Mental Healing in Urban Ghana / Leith Mullings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullings, Leith, Author.

Series:

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series

Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: The Context of Illness and Therapy

Introductory Note

1. The Setting

2. The Healers

PART II: The Ethnography of Healing

3. Traditional Healing

4. Spiritualist Healing

PART III: Cross-cultural Mental Therapy

5. A Comparison of Therapeutic Systems

6. Mental Therapy and Social Change

Appendixes

Notes

References Cited

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520319745

0520319745

OCLC:

1427666855