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

ISBN-13: 9780367589585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 322 str.

Claudia Lang

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.