Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India

Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st Century India Lang Claudia Wydawca: Taylor & Francis Ltd Data wydania: 2020 ISBN: 9780367589585 Liczba stron: 322 Format: 234 x 156 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression. Based on over a year of fieldwork, it investigates the Ayurvedic response to the burden of depressi