Narrating the caring fatigue: stories of the ambivalence of filial care in a caregivers' self-help group in Italy
This article shows how, within a caregivers' self-help group in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, the narrative of caring fatigue was mobilised to question and negotiate local normative discourses and social norms on affective states and family care responsibilities. The neoliberal discourse on family caregiving in Italy assumes that it comes from authentic affective states and mutual understanding. By showing how intergenerational obligations and shifting parent-child hierarchies constrained the building up of caregiving relations, the narrative of caring fatigue allowed participants to explain the ambivalence they perceived about t...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - July 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Francesco Diodati Source Type: research
Chronic relationships and mental health care: global pharmaceuticals in a local healing shrine in India
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun;30(2):135-152. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212212. Epub 2023 Jun 5.ABSTRACTThe paper explores how chronicities and chronic relationships are fostered at a state-sponsored community psychiatry clinic that has been affiliated with a Sufi shrine in western India. The clinic provides free psychotropic treatment to patients, most of whom are pilgrims visiting the shrine. While the clinic has been lauded for its collaborative approach of blending 'medicine and prayer' in the provision of mental health care, observations of clinical encounters reflect the prevalence of a strongly medicalized perspective of...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
