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
Autor principal: Ecks, Stefan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychotropic drugs > Social aspects.
Psychopharmacology > Social aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnopharmacology.
Cultural psychiatry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Ethnopsychiatrie > Inde > Kolkata.
Psychotropes > Aspect social > Inde > Kolkata.
Ethnopharmacologie > Inde > Kolkata.
Medical anthropology > India > Kolkata.
Cultural psychiatry > India > Kolkata.
Psychotropic drugs > Social aspects > India > Kolkata.
Ethnopharmacology > India > Kolkata.
Psychopharmacology > Social aspects > India > Kolkata.
India > Kolkata.
Electronic books.
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 (240 pages).
ISBN:9780814760307

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