Psychogenic death: individual effects of sorcery and taboo violation
Can social causes directly effect physiological processes? In many parts of the world, there are reports that those who have broken a ritual prohibition or hold that they are victims of sorcery give up and die, a phenomenon labelled by anthropologists as voodoo death. The mechanisms for this remain...
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Taylor & Francis
2003
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Mental health, religion & culture
Year: 2003, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 195-202 |
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