Cosmos, Gods and Madmen

Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine

222 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Introduction of cosmology into medical anthropology as a useful concept through which to examine mental illness and health, a concept that also bridges some of the divisions between what is considered ‘medical’ and ‘religious’. Range of ethnographic examples based on original research data and which illustrates how cosmologies might manifest and be examined in different cultural contexts. Placement of medical anthropology in the centre of social anthropology and human sciences rather than situating this as just a technique of biomedical explanation and handmaiden of biomedicine.

• Themen: Medizin Klinische und Innere Medizin
• ISBN: 9781785331770
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2016
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Rebecca Lynch, Roland Littlewood