Mudpacks and Prozac Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing
20 chapter Patient experiences with various treatments—such as ayurvedic mudpacks, allopathic electroconvulsive therapy and ...
introduction 21 Along with these exalted goals of therapy are the more common, modest results of treatment that are not captur ...
22 chapter Kerala, “God’s Own Country” Looking out the window of a plane descending toward the airport in Trivandrum,^12 the ...
introduction 23 the afternoon in Kerala is “Have you had your lunch?” Th e taste for seafood and coconut may resemble Bengal, ...
24 chapter It is useful to think of the states of India as analogous to the countries of Europe. Th e borders of Indian stat ...
introduction 25 in an air ticket and visa, many migrants fi nd that they are unable to make as much money as they had hoped to ...
26 chapter famous as the home of the once-polyandrous Nayar caste, although more recently investigators have been intrigued ...
introduction 27 women learned to read; the Christians, Muslims and Jews were involved in trade and practiced religions that em ...
28 chapter a routine basis. It was hard for me to understand why people did not say nani until I asked myself why we say “th ...
introduction 29 It would be wrong to draw an overly neat distinction between an egocentric West and a sociocentric India. Th e ...
30 chapter by the conjugation of the verb (for example, fuimos in Spanish means “we,” not “they” or “she,” “went”). In Malay ...
introduction 31 standard defi nition that transcended the various therapeutic contexts I was examining. Meanwhile, allopathic ...
32 chapter disorder or schizophrenia.^29 However, these conditions are comparable from a more pragmatic perspective in that ...
introduction 33 Trivandrum Ayurveda College after giving a lecture on medical anthropology or chatting with psychiatrists afte ...
34 chapter questionnaire. Informants were given the option of returning a questionnaire because follow-up interviews were ha ...
introduction 35 Beemapalli mosque and Vettucaud church are presented. Th ese places of devo- tion and healing feature aestheti ...
36 chapter of curing are thus examined along with idioms patients use to describe what is accomplished in healing that diver ...
introduction 37 sound (distinguished from harder “sh” which is transcribed as “sh”). Th us, rather than use, for example, an a ...
38 chapter of mind-body dualism (1987: 9). Although they do not directly claim that all non-Western cultures are holistic or ...
introduction 39 Th e WHO in 1978 defi ned health not as an absence of illness but as a presence of a sense of well-being, but ...
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