| Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing Contributor(s): Halliburton, Murphy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598743988 ISBN-13: 9781598743982 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Ethnopsychology - Body, Mind & Spirit | Healing - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 131 |
| LCCN: 2009019105 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 8.8" (0.95 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies--from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures. He describes people's embodied experiences of therapies that range from soothing to frightening, and explores how enduring pleasure or pain affects healing. And through evocative portraits of patients in Kerala, India--a place of incredible cultural diversity that has become a Mecca for alternative medicine--Halliburton shows how sociopolitical changes around the globe may be limiting the ways in which people seek and experience health care, with negative effects on our quality of health and quality of life. |