Alyson Callan

Patients and Agents

Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 of these modernizing trends on mental health...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780857454881
• ISBN-10: 0857454889
• Artikelnr.: 36833789

Autorenporträt

Alyson Callan is a psychiatrist and anthropologist. She currently works as a consultant psychiatrist in Brent for the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of key informants
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Sylhet and Social Change
Chapter 3. An Outline Ethnopsychiatry of Sylhet
Chapter 4. The Relationship Between Madness and Religiosity
Chapter 5. Sorcery: 'What else do we Bengalis do?
Chapter 6. Marriage, Madness and Resistance
Chapter 7. Spirit Possession, Personal Autonomy and the Law of Allah
Chapter 8. Muslim patients, Hindu healers
Chapter 9. Female Saints
Chapter 10. Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography