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

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Claudia Lang
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780367589585
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58958-5
• Pagine: 322
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, India, Mental health services, Ayurvedic therapies, Traditional medicine and herbal remedies, Medical Anthropology