1st Edition
Depression in Kerala Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India
By Claudia Lang
Copyright 2018
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
340 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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 depression in the Indian state of Kerala as one of the key... Read more
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
Biography
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.
