Mudpacks and prozac : experiencing Ayurvedic, biomedical, and religious healing / Murphy Halliburton.
Material type: TextPublication details: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781598747294
- 1598747290
- 1598743988
- 9781598743982
- Traditional medicine -- India -- Kerala
- Cultural psychiatry -- India -- Kerala
- Medicine, Ayurvedic -- India -- Kerala
- Healing -- Social aspects -- India -- Kerala
- Human mechanics
- Kerala (India) -- Social life and customs
- Mental illness -- Treatment
- Medicine -- Religious aspects
- Mental Disorders -- therapy
- Medicine, Ayurvedic
- Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
- Religion and Medicine
- India
- Ethnopsychiatrie -- Inde -- Kerala
- Āyurveda -- Inde -- Kerala
- Guérison -- Aspect social -- Inde -- Kerala
- Mécanique humaine
- Kerala (Inde) -- Mœurs et coutumes
- Maladies mentales -- Traitement
- Médecine -- Aspect religieux
- HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia
- Cultural psychiatry
- Healing -- Social aspects
- Human mechanics
- Manners and customs
- Medicine, Ayurvedic
- Traditional medicine
- India -- Kerala
- médecine -- tradition (philosophie) -- Kerala (Inde)
- Āyurveda -- médecine indienne -- Kerala (Inde)
- 954.83
- GR305.5.K4 H35 2009eb
- 2010 A-740
- WM 400
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Three Therapies of South India; 3. Lives and Problems; 4. Experiencing the World from Body to Atman; 5. Cooling Mudpacks: The Aesthetic Quality of Therapy; 6. Conclusion: Pleasure, Health and Speed; Appendix A: Semi-Structured Interview Questions; References; Index; About the Author.
Mud Packs and Prozac is a fascinating comparative analysis of how patients choose and how they experience the therapies of Western biomedical, Ayurvedic, and religious healing systems. Foregrounding questions of embodiment and aesthetics, Murphy Halliburton challenges our understandings of mental illness and of the transformative processes typically evaluated as "cure."
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