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Depression in Kerala - Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,420
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Depression in Kerala - Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India (Paperback): Claudia Lang

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

Claudia Lang

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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
Release date: August 2020
First published: 2018
Authors: Claudia Lang
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-58958-5
Categories: Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services
Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > Traditional medicine & remedies > Ayurveda
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
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LSN: 0-367-58958-3
Barcode: 9780367589585

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