Cosmos, Gods and Madmen

Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Healing, Patient Care, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Cosmology
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Author: ISBN: 9781785331787
Publisher: Berghahn Books Publication: June 1, 2016
Imprint: Berghahn Books Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781785331787
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication: June 1, 2016
Imprint: Berghahn Books
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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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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