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Title Cosmos, gods and madmen : frameworks in the anthropologies of medicine / edited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch.
Publisher New York : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Copyright ©2016

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Description 214 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781785331770 hardback
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.
Library Class Anthrop B964
Subject Medical anthropology.
Religion and medicine.
Cosmology.
Other Author Littlewood, Roland, editor.
Lynch, Rebecca (Research fellow), editor.

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