Mental illness, medical pluralism and Islamism in Sylhet, Bangladesh
This thesis examines the health seeking practices of the mentally ill in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Previous work has suggested that in the Islamic world local traditional healing is being undenriined by the encroaching global forces of biomedicine and orthodox Islam. However, in Sylhet, traditional healin...
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University College London (University of London)
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420909 |