index 225
dhātus (substances of the body), 46
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
(DSM), 64
disease entities: in allopathy, 188; in
ayurveda, 188–89
doctor-patient relationship, 58
dosas (humors), 46–47, 50–51
Doyle, Derek, 166
DSM. See Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual
eating disorders, 61–62, 123
Eck, Diana, 68
ECT. See electroconvulsive therapy
education, 121, 134, 136n15
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), 11,
12, 66, 74–75, 159; rate of use
of, 89n22, 192n7; reactions to,
168–72
embodiment, 11, 17, 35, 38n6; author’s
assumptions about, 145;
ethnographic studies of, 140–41
English medicine. See allopathic
medicines; allopathic treatment;
allopathy
Estroff , Sue E., 164, 184
experience, modes of, 14, 15, 18,
151–54
faith healers, 86–87
family. See under mental illness therapy
Farmer, Paul, 59, 95–96
Farquhar, Judith, 17–18, 20, 163, 198
Fischer, Michael, 201
fl uoxetine, 65. See also allopathic
medicines
Fuller, C. J., 68
GAMH. See Government Ayurveda
Mental Hospital
Ghosh, Amitav, 81
Glennie, Paul, 200
Gough, Kathleen, 26, 156
Government Ayurveda Mental Hospital
(GAMH), 39–40n27, 51–54;
cost of treatment at, 51; inpatient
treatment process at, 52–53
guru-chela (guru-disciple) relationship,- See also doctor-patient
relationship
Habib, S. Irfan, 48
Haiti, 59
Halliburton, Murphy, 21, 104, 119, 195
haloperidol, 64–65, 135n5. See also
allopathic medicines
Harvey, David, 199, 200
healing: aesthetic studies of, 163;
concept of, 13, 16, 160, 203;
concept of time in, 13, 36, 162;
dissemination of knowledge
about, 134; transformation in, 13,
20, 126, 161, 187
health services, availability of, 62–63
health: as functionality, 199–200, 203; as
transformative process, 200–201,
203; defi nitions of, 13, 20, 201;
social and cultural analyses of, 16
herbal medicine, 43
Hexidol, 99, 135n5. See also allopathic
medicines
Hinduism, 30, 68
holistic medicine, 43
homeopathy, 87
hospitals. See allopathic hospitals;
Government Ayurveda Mental
HospitalICD. See International Classifi cation of
Diseases
idioms of distress, 15, 37n3, 104, 105,
156–57, 195–96
Illich, Ivan, 201
illness, meaning of, 16. See also mental
illness
India, diversity of, 24