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

by Roland Littlewood (Editor), Rebecca Lynch (Editor)

• 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.