Mudpacks and prozac : experiencing Ayurvedic, biomedical, and religious healing

Mudpacks and prozac : experiencing Ayurvedic, biomedical, and religious healing / Murphy Halliburton.

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 il...

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Main Author: Halliburton, Murphy, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Traditional medicine > India > Kerala.
Cultural psychiatry > India > Kerala.
Medicine, Ayurvedic > India > Kerala.
Healing > Social aspects > India > Kerala.
Human mechanics.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Mental illness > Treatment
Medicine > Religious aspects
Cultural psychiatry
Healing > Social aspects
Human mechanics
Manners and customs
Medicine, Ayurvedic
Traditional medicine
médecine > tradition (philosophie) > Kerala (Inde)
Āyurveda > médecine indienne > Kerala (Inde)
Kerala (India) > Social life and customs.
India > Kerala
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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