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Depression in Kerala - Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India (Paperback)
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Depression in Kerala - Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
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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 processes of the local appropriation or
glocalization of depression. More broadly, Lang considers: What
happens with the category of depression when it leaves the West and
travels to South Asia? How is depression appropriated in a South
Asian society characterized by medical pluralism? She explores on
the level of ideas, institutions and materialities how depression
interacts with and changes local worlds, clinical practice and
knowledge and subjectivities. As depression travels from 'the West'
to South India, its ontology, Lang argues, multiplies and thus
leads to what she calls 'depression multiple'.
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