Gendering Mental Health: Knowledges, Identities, and Institutions - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199453535 ISBN 13 : 9780199453535

Editeur : OUP India, 2015

Synopsis

Steeped in archaic and narrow colonial attitudes towards people of 'unsound mind', the discourse on mental health in India, as also the public apparatus dealing with it, are rigid, exclusionary, and deeply gender insensitive. Interrogating the ways in which we understand and deal with mental health disabilities, this volume unravels the voices of women trapped in the predominantly skewed discourse of mental ill-health as 'madness', within the sciences, legal systems, policies, and the media.

The collection of essays in this volume focus on the state of mental health of Indian women, with respect to social attitudes, cultural barriers, treatment, policies, safeguards, or lack thereof. The contributors ask fundamental questions: Is 'mental illness' a social, medical, legal, penal, historical, personal construct? Is mental disorder a disability? Do people living with a mental ailment have a 'memory' or the 'insight' to tell their own stories? In dealing with these questions, it seeks to provide a perspective on how women suffering from mental illness view themselves and their surroundings in India.

Combining primary research and insights from gender studies and mental health specialists, the volume presents a fundamental critique of the institutional responses to women's mental health, and highlights the dire need to overhaul the Indian mental health system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bhargavi V. Davar is Director, Center for Advocacy in Mental Health, Pune

T.K. Sundari Ravindran is Honorary Professor at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199453535
• ISBN 13: 9780199453535
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Davar Bhargavi V., Ravindran T. K. Sundari
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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