Chronic relationships and mental health care: global pharmaceuticals in a local healing shrine in India
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 5:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212212. Online ahead of print.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
