Cosmos, gods and madmen : frameworks in the anthropologies of medicine / edited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch.

New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

214 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : divinity, disease, distress / Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch -- Why animism matters / A. David Napier -- Spreading the gospel of the miracle cure / Rodney J. Reynolds -- Madness and miracles / Ursula M. Read -- Sakawa rumours / Alice Armstrong -- To heal the body is to heal oneself / Isabelle Lange -- Addiction and the duality of the self in a North American religio-therapeutic community / Ellie Reynolds -- Religious conversion and madness / David M.R. Orr -- Cosmologies of fear / Rebecca Lynch -- Functionalists and zombis / Roland Littlewood -- Religion and psychosis / Simon Dein.