My husband, Roland Littlewood, who has died aged 78, was professor of psychiatry and anthropology at University College London from 1994 until 2012, and for more than 20 years the joint director of UCL’s Centre for Medical Anthropology, which explores how health, medicine and healing are influenced by cultural values and practices across different societies.
In the course of his research, Roland travelled to Trinidad to study the healing practices of Mother Earth (Jeanette Baptist) and the Earth People (a spiritual community), to Haiti to research voodoo and healing, and to the Lebanon to observe the Druze sect.
