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Allopathic Medicine
Allopathic Therapy
Allopathic Treatment
Author_Murphy Halliburton
Ayurveda College
Ayurvedic Medical
Ayurvedic Physicians
Ayurvedic Therapy
Ayurvedic Treatment
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Central Kerala
Clock Time
Coconut Trees
comparative psychiatric treatment approaches
cross-cultural psychiatry
Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Kerala mental health systems
Lifestyle Regimens
medical anthropology
Mentally Afflicted
Mind Body Dualism
Northern Kerala
Phenomenological Orientation
Pleasant Process
psychiatric ethnography
qualitative health research
Rauwolfia Serpentina
religious healing practices
Religious Therapies
South Asian System
Sree Narayana Guru
SSLC
Tamil Nadu
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781598743999
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies—from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures. He describes people's embodied experiences of therapies that range from soothing to frightening, and explores how enduring pleasure or pain affects healing. And through evocative portraits of patients in Kerala, India—a place of incredible cultural diversity that has become a Mecca for alternative medicine—Halliburton shows how sociopolitical changes around the globe may be limiting the ways in which people seek and experience health care, with negative effects on our quality of health and quality of life.
Murphy Halliburton is a tenured assistant professor in the Graduate Center and Department of Anthropology, Queens College CUNY. He has published in leading journals including American Anthropologist, Transcultural Psychiatry, Global Public Health, and Medical Anthropology.
