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Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital
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eBook - ePub
Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital
About this book
Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes the management of madness in one of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement. The author explores the assembling and impact of psychiatric, bureaucratic, gendered and queer narratives in and around the hospital. Finally, the author attempts to reconcile social anthropology and psychiatry by scrutinising their divergent approaches towards 'mad narratives'.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Indian Psychiatric Spaces and ‘Mad’ Narratives
- Chapter 1 Ethnographic Research in Psychiatry: Ethical Contemplations and Sensorial Engagements
- Chapter 2 Everyday Routines, Life and Solicitudes at Asha
- Chapter 3 Resisting the Uniform: Social Distinctions and Hierarchies in the Wards
- Chapter 4 A Machine for the Production of Inscriptions: Practices of Paperwork at Asha
- Chapter 5 Negotiations and Imaginations in the Context of Discharge and Rehabilitation
- Chapter 6 ‘This Hospital is Not Good’: What a Psychiatric Patient Can Tell Us about Psychiatric Culture
- Chapter 7 Being Gay and Feeling Female: Queer Voices from Indian Psychiatry
- Conclusion Listening to ‘Mad’ Narratives
- References
- Index