Eating Drugs : Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India / Stefan Ecks
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TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Series: Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)Publication details: New York : New York University Press, ©2014Description: x, 223 pages 24cmISBN: 9780814724767Subject(s): Medicine and health | Diseases | Psychopharmacology -- Social aspects -- India -- Kolkata | Cultural psychiatry -- India -- Kolkata | Medical anthropology -- India -- Kolkata | HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General | MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine | MEDICAL -- Diseases | Cultural psychiatry | Medical anthropology | Medical anthropology -- India -- Kolkata | Psychopharmacology -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 616.8918 ECK | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Popular practice : the belly and the "bad mind" --
Ayurveda : "you are the medicine" --
Homeopathy : immaterial medicines --
Psychiatry : medicating modern moods.
Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many prescriptions as possible, with as little awkward questioning from patients as possible. Without a sustained public debate on psychopharmaceuticals in India, patients remain puzzled by the notion that drugs can cure disturbances of the mind. While biomedical psychopharmaceuticals are perceived with great suspicion, many non-biomedical treatments are embraced. The author illuminates how biomedical, Ayurvedic, and homeopathic treatments are used in India, and argues that pharmaceutical pluralism changes popular ideas of what drugs do
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