Depression in Kerala : Ayurveda and mental health care in 21st century India / Claudia Lang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lang, Claudia, author.

Contributor:

Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depression, Mental--India--Kerala.

Depression, Mental.

Depression, Mental--Alternative treatment.

Medicine, Ayurvedic.

Medical anthropology.

India--Kerala.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction; The making of an epidemic; Depression multiple: dynamic ontologies; Critical and cross-cultural research on depression; Methods, personal orientations and the mental health pluralism of Kerala; The book in a nutshell; Notes; 2. Kerala: a society in distress; Notes; 3. Glocalizing depression and its treatment in Kerala; From the asylum towards community psychiatry: institutional shifts

From expert to popular knowledge: the myriad masks of depression, neurochemical imbalance and the denigration of ritual healing"A gramme is better than a damn":21 marketing depression, marketing a "cure"; Depression and the medicalization of suicide; Medicalization of distress and neurochemical imbalance explained: the body, the brain and the (non)sense of suffering; Notes; 4. Appropriating depression in institutionalized Ayurvedic psychiatry; 1 Introduction; 2 Institutionalized Ayurvedic psychiatry: education and practice; 3 The physiology and morals of depression

Gunas, sattvabalam and mental health4 The politics and pragmatics of nosologies and their translations: reconfiguration, translation and autonomy; 5 Purifying the body, controlling the mind and excising the spirits: negotiating medical treatment, sattvavajaya and "spiritual therapy" of depression; 6 Ayurvedic psychiatrists beyond the clinic: the politics of recognition; Notes; 5. Possession to depression and back: Ayurvedic psychiatry from the margins; A private Ayurvedic psychiatric clinic; The god of small things; Institutional gate keeping and an analysis from the margins; Notes; Glossary

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 25, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

ISBN:

9781351001342

1351001345

Publisher Number:

99979924444

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.