Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India

Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital

Annika Strauss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-068-8 (ISBN)

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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 the management of madness in one 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. Finally, the author attempts to reconcile social anthropology and psychiatry by scrutinising their divergent approaches towards ‘mad narratives’.

Annika Strauss is a Postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany. Until recently she was a project coordinator of a community health project that collaboratively developed disease preventive measures for vulnerable segments of the population in Bochum (Ruhr area).

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Introduction: Indian Psychiatric Spaces and Mad Narratives

Chapter 1. Ethnographic Research in Psychiatry: Ethical Contemplations and Sensorial Engagements

Chapter 2. Everyday Routines, Life and Solicitudes in Asha

Chapter 3. Resisting the Uniform: Social Distinctions and Hierarchies in the Wards

Chapter 4. A Machine for the Production of Inscriptions: Practices of Paperworkin Asha

Chapter 5. Negotiations and Imaginations in the Context of Discharge and Rehabilitation

Chapter 6. ‘This Hospital is Not Good’: What a Psychiatric Patient Can Tell Us about Psychiatric Culture?

Chapter 7. Being Gay and Feeling Female: Queer Voices from Indian Psychiatry

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-068-6 / 1805390686
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-068-8 / 9781805390688
Zustand	Neuware