Chronic illness in South Asia: rethinking discourses of risk, evidence, and control
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-4. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2202055. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis special issue brings together five original research papers on chronic conditions in South Asian contexts with a view to rethink dominant discourses of risk, evidence and control surrounding the category of chronic conditions. Focusing on the multiple and contradictory (re)definitions of what counts as illness, specifically in the context of the rising burden of chronic illness, the papers in this issue deal with a range of health care practices from individual patients negotiating with 'healthy diet', to policy questions ...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
"Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case": Medicalized perspectives about chronicity and mental health care in Kerala
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low--income countries, mental health non-governmental organisations (MHNGOs) have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with pre-existing locally grown, bottom-up, community-led pain and palliative clinics (PPCs) to increase access to mental health care through task-shifting. The MHNGOs mandate filtering only patients with 'severe mental disorders' from low socioeconomic backgrounds for their free services. This eligibility criterion...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sudarshan R Kottai Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
Chronic illness in South Asia: rethinking discourses of risk, evidence, and control
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-4. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2202055. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis special issue brings together five original research papers on chronic conditions in South Asian contexts with a view to rethink dominant discourses of risk, evidence and control surrounding the category of chronic conditions. Focusing on the multiple and contradictory (re)definitions of what counts as illness, specifically in the context of the rising burden of chronic illness, the papers in this issue deal with a range of health care practices from individual patients negotiating with 'healthy diet', to policy questions ...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
"Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case": Medicalized perspectives about chronicity and mental health care in Kerala
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low--income countries, mental health non-governmental organisations (MHNGOs) have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with pre-existing locally grown, bottom-up, community-led pain and palliative clinics (PPCs) to increase access to mental health care through task-shifting. The MHNGOs mandate filtering only patients with 'severe mental disorders' from low socioeconomic backgrounds for their free services. This eligibility criterion...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sudarshan R Kottai Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
Chronic illness in South Asia: rethinking discourses of risk, evidence, and control
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-4. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2202055. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis special issue brings together five original research papers on chronic conditions in South Asian contexts with a view to rethink dominant discourses of risk, evidence and control surrounding the category of chronic conditions. Focusing on the multiple and contradictory (re)definitions of what counts as illness, specifically in the context of the rising burden of chronic illness, the papers in this issue deal with a range of health care practices from individual patients negotiating with 'healthy diet', to policy questions ...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
"Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case": Medicalized perspectives about chronicity and mental health care in Kerala
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low--income countries, mental health non-governmental organisations (MHNGOs) have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with pre-existing locally grown, bottom-up, community-led pain and palliative clinics (PPCs) to increase access to mental health care through task-shifting. The MHNGOs mandate filtering only patients with 'severe mental disorders' from low socioeconomic backgrounds for their free services. This eligibility criterion...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sudarshan R Kottai Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
Chronic illness in South Asia: rethinking discourses of risk, evidence, and control
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-4. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2202055. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis special issue brings together five original research papers on chronic conditions in South Asian contexts with a view to rethink dominant discourses of risk, evidence and control surrounding the category of chronic conditions. Focusing on the multiple and contradictory (re)definitions of what counts as illness, specifically in the context of the rising burden of chronic illness, the papers in this issue deal with a range of health care practices from individual patients negotiating with 'healthy diet', to policy questions ...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
"Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case": Medicalized perspectives about chronicity and mental health care in Kerala
Anthropol Med. 2023 Jun 1:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low--income countries, mental health non-governmental organisations (MHNGOs) have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with pre-existing locally grown, bottom-up, community-led pain and palliative clinics (PPCs) to increase access to mental health care through task-shifting. The MHNGOs mandate filtering only patients with 'severe mental disorders' from low socioeconomic backgrounds for their free services. This eligibility criterion...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - June 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sudarshan R Kottai Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
'I do not feel well here as such. But it has become my home': abandonment and care in healing shrines
Anthropol Med. 2023 May 8:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2023.2171237. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn thinking about care, much research has focused on kin relations, family-related care, and formal (medical) or informal care providers. Yet, how do we understand care responsibilities in contexts where kin care is absent despite being a desired social norm, and people turn to other community sources or practices? This paper draws on ethnographic research in a Sufi religious shrine in western India well-known for providing succor to those in distress, including those with mental illness. Interviews were conducted with pilgrim...
Source: Anthropology and Medicine - May 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shubha Ranganathan Source Type: research
