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ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2022

Not You: Addiction, Relapse, and Release in Uganda.

China Scherz, George Mpanga, Sarah Namirembe

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Article in Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

China ScherzDepartment of Anthropology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 40012, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4120, USA. crs4he@virginia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5562-8538
George MpangaDepartment of Anthropology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 40012, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4120, USA.
Sarah NamirembeDepartment of Anthropology, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 40012, Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4120, USA.
University of Virginia · US

Funding

Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences 1758472
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, alcohol abuse and dependence have become topics of increasing concern in Uganda, but the chronic relapsing brain disease model of addiction remains only one of many ways of understanding and addressing alcohol-related problems there. For many Ugandan Pentecostals and spirit mediums to be addicted is to be under the control of a being that comes from outside the self. Where these two groups differ, and here they differ strongly, is in regard to the moral valence of these external spirits and what ought to be done about them. This article draws on four years of collaborative ethnographic fieldwork to explore the affordances of these ways of viewing and experiencing addiction and recovery for Ugandans attempting to leave alcohol behind. While the idioms of bondage, dedication, and possession are at times severe, this article argues that they contain within them concepts and practices that point away from models of addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease and towards the possibility of release.

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Behavior, AddictiveChronic DiseaseHumansMoralsRecurrenceUgandaAddictionChristianityReligionSpirit possessionUganda

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PMID33999310
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