Cosmos, Gods and Madmen - Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2016
Editors:	Roland Littlewood • Rebecca Lynch
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-1-78533-177-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
LSN:	1-78533-177-9
Barcode:	9781785331770

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