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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2023.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.6605384 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Indian psychiatric spaces and mad narratives
- Ethnographic research in psychiatry: ethical contemplations and sensorial engagements
- Everyday routines, life and solicitudes in Asha
- Resisting the uniform : social distinctions and hierarchies in the wards
- A machine for the production of inscriptions: practices of paperwork in Asha
- Negotiations and imaginations in the context of discharge and rehabilitation
- 'This hospital is not good' : what a psychiatric patient can tell us about psychiatric culture
- Being gay and feeling female : queer voices from Indian psychiatry.