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Author Pinto, Sarah, 1973- author

Title Daughters of Parvati : women and madness in contemporary India / Sarah Pinto
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages)
Series Contemporary ethnography
Contemporary ethnography.
Contents Introduction : love and afflication -- Rehabilitating Ammi -- On dissolution -- Moksha and mishappenings -- On dissociation -- Making a case -- Ethics of dissolution
Summary In this account of an anthropologist's journey into Indian psychiatry wards, among women with mental illnesses and the loved ones who care for them, Sarah Pinto responds to ethical crises in caregiving with attention to culture, gender, and the globalized worlds of Indian women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed January 3, 2017)
Subject Mentally ill women -- Care -- India
Psychiatric hospitals -- India
Women -- Mental health services -- India
Psychiatry -- India -- History -- 21st century
Mental health services.
Women's health services.
Mental Health Services
Psychiatry
Women's Health Services
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Women's health services
Mental health services
Mentally ill women -- Care
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Women -- Mental health services
Psychisch kranke Frau
Psychiatrische Versorgung
SUBJECT India
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812209281
9780812209280