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Patients and Agents: Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh Alyson Callan
Patients and Agents: Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Alyson Callan
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...
238 pages, 1, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 1, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780857454881 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 252 |
| Dimensions | 233 × 162 × 16 mm · 485 g |
| Language | English |