Madness, bureaucracy and gender in Mumbai, India : narratives from a psychiatric hospital
Annika Strauss
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
| Omfang | ix, 318 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "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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| ISBN | 9781805390688
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