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Patients and agents : mental illness, modernity, and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh /

Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Callan, Alyson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Key Informants; Introduction; Chapter 1
  • Sylhet and Social Change; Chapter 2
  • An Outline Ethnopsychiatry of Sylhet; Chapter 3
  • The Relationship Between Madness and Religiosity; Chapter 4
  • Sorcery: 'What else do we Bengalis do?'; Chapter 5
  • Marriage, Madness and Resistance; Chapter 6
  • Spirit Possession, Personal Autonomy and the Law of Allah; Chapter 7
  • Muslim Patients, Hindu Healers; Chapter 8
  • Female Saints; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.