Madness, bureaucracy and gender in Mumbai, India : narratives from a psychiatric hospital /
"Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes bure...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2023.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.6605384 |
| Summary: | "Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes bureaucracy of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement. The author explores the assembling and impact of psychiatric, bureaucratic, gendered and queer narratives in and around the hospital. The author critically tackles the divergent approaches towards 'mad narratives' and attempts to reconcile the social anthropology and psychiatry of alienated individuals in urban India"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1805390694 9781805390695 9781805390688 |