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Cosmos, Gods and Madmen: Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine
Roland Littlewood (Ed.)
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Description for Cosmos, Gods and Madmen: Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine
Hardback. The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. Editor(s): Littlewood, Roland; Lynch, Rebecca. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785331770
SKU
V9781785331770
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99-15
About Roland Littlewood (Ed.)
Roland Littlewood is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at UCL. He is a former president of the RAI and has undertaken fieldwork in Trinidad, Haiti, Lebanon, Italy and Albania, and has published eight books and around 200 papers. Rebecca Lynch is an Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). ... Read more
Reviews for Cosmos, Gods and Madmen: Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine
Despite high levels of unpredictability and uncertainty, and in some instances even the failure of miracles, what is most striking is the universal and powerful incentive and motivation behind this search. In terms of the book's wider contribution, it provides an effective and timely response to the current comparative biomedical focus within medical anthropology, by reconnecting with its social origins. ... Read more