Popular practice : the belly and the "bad mind" -- Ayurveda : "you are the medicine" -- Homeopathy : immaterial medicines -- Psychiatry : medicating modern moods
Summary
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
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed January 22, 2019)