Depression in Kerala Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Kerala: a society in distress 3. Glocalizing depression and its treatment in Kerala 4. Appropriating depression in institutionalized Ayurvedic psychiatry 5. Possession to depression and back: Ayurvedic psychiatry from the margins

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Claudia Lang is an ERC-funded postdoctoral research fellow working on the GLOBHEALTH project at Cermes3 (Center for research in medicine, science, health, mental health and society) in Paris, France.

Zusammenfassung

This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression. Based on over a year of fieldwork, it investigates the Ayurvedic response to the burden of depressi

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Claudia Lang
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2020
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines
• EAN: 9780367589585
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58958-5
• Anzahl Seiten: 322
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
• Themen: Anthropology, Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, India, Tamil Nadu, Mental health services, Mental Illness, Clinical Practice, Ayurvedic therapies, Traditional medicine and herbal remedies, Medical Anthropology, global mental health, traditional medicine integration, kapha dosha, qualitative fieldwork India, Caraka Samhita, psychiatric ethnography, mental health pluralism, glocalisation of illness, cross-cultural depression treatment, Ayurvedic Drugs, Kerala Model, Mainstream Psychiatry, Ayurvedic Knowledge, Multi-specialty Hospitals, Ayurvedic Terms, Ayurvedic Concepts, Ayurvedic Doctors, Masked Depression, Ayurvedic Theory, Ayurvedic Physicians, Medhya Rasayana, Neurochemical Imbalance, Ayurvedic Practitioners