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Depression in Kerala : Ayurveda and mental health care in 21st century India

Title
Depression in Kerala : Ayurveda and mental health care in 21st century India / Claudia Lang.
ISBN
1351001337
1351001345
1351001353
1351001361
9781351001335
9781351001342
9781351001359
9781351001366
1138482803
9781138482807
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Lang, Claudia. Depression in Kerala. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology.
Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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
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Electronic books.
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