Eating drugs : psychopharmaceutical pluralism in India /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ecks, Stefan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
Temas:
Psychopharmacology > Social aspects > India > Kolkata.
Ethnopharmacology > India > Kolkata.
Psychotropic drugs > Social aspects > India > Kolkata.
Cultural psychiatry > India > Kolkata.
Medical anthropology > India > Kolkata.
Ethnopharmacologie > Inde > Kolkata.
Psychotropes > Aspect social > Inde > Kolkata.
Ethnopsychiatrie > Inde > Kolkata.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Cultural psychiatry
Ethnopharmacology
Medical anthropology
Psychopharmacology > Social aspects
Psychotropic drugs > Social aspects
India > Kolkata
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 223 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814760307
0814760309

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