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Author Ecks, Stefan, author.

Title Eating drugs : psychopharmaceutical pluralism in India / Stefan Ecks
Published New York : New York University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)
Series Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed January 22, 2019)
Subject Psychopharmacology -- Social aspects -- India -- Kolkata
Ethnopharmacology -- India -- Kolkata
Psychotropic drugs -- Social aspects -- India -- Kolkata
Cultural psychiatry -- India -- Kolkata
Medical anthropology -- India -- 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
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013019859
ISBN 9780814760307
0814760309