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In: Religionen in der pluralen Welt Band 9
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Volume 59, Issue 2
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Epistemologies of Healing v.14
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as ""natural"" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies
In: Routledge sutdies in religion
In: Social Studies in Asian Medicine 2
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Global Mental Health -- Critical Histories -- 2 Mental Ills for All -- 3 Schizoid Balinese? -- 4 Misdiagnosis -- The Limits of Global Mental Health -- 5 Jinns and the Proletarian Mumin Subject -- 6 Psychedelic Therapy -- Alternatives -- 7 The House of Love and the Mental Hospital -- 8 Ayurvedic Psychiatry and the Moral Physiology of Depression in Kerala -- 9 Global Mental Therapy -- Afterwords -- 10 Global Mental Health -- 11 "Treatment" and Why We Need Alternatives -- Index