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Cosmos, Gods and Madmen: Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine

Cosmos, Gods and Madmen: Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine

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Medical ReferenceReligion General Astronomy & Space

ISBN10: 1789200628
ISBN13: 9781789200621
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Sep 14 2018
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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