Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India

Annika Strauss is a Postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany. Until recently she was a project coordinator of a community health project that collaboratively developed disease preventive measures for vulnerable segments of the population in Bochum (Ruhr area).

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Introduction: Indian Psychiatric Spaces and Mad Narratives



Chapter 1. Ethnographic Research in Psychiatry: Ethical Contemplations and Sensorial Engagements

Chapter 2. Everyday Routines, Life and Solicitudes in Asha

Chapter 3. Resisting the Uniform: Social Distinctions and Hierarchies in the Wards

Chapter 4. A Machine for the Production of Inscriptions: Practices of Paperworkin Asha

Chapter 5. Negotiations and Imaginations in the Context of Discharge and Rehabilitation

Chapter 6. ‘This Hospital is Not Good’: What a Psychiatric Patient Can Tell Us about Psychiatric Culture?

Chapter 7. Being Gay and Feeling Female: Queer Voices from Indian Psychiatry



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