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Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology

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 healingA 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

Depression, Mental > Alternative treatment.

Depression, Mental > India > Kerala.