You can attend the office hour via Zoom or in presence in my office in the Institute of Ethnology. Forschendes Lernen Einzeltermin, Konzeption eines Forschungs- oder Berufsfeldprojekts Master- and PhD-Colloquium In Cooperation with Ioannis Manos. Empirische Verfahren Helene Basu. Her research project "Sex-Gender and Psychiatry in Mumbai" is once more placed in the field of Transcultural Psychiatry.
Up to now the local construction of biomedicine outside western cultures was discussed only in a minority of anthropological studies. This paper takes a close look at the cultural and social structures of a biomedical NGO in Western India which deals with the rehabilitation of mentally ill roadside destitutes. The ailment of patients, which is treated in this NGO, becomes manifest in psychiatric symptoms on the one hand and in the loss of and separation from their families on the other.
This ideology has a major impact on the patterns of action within the organisation. Due to a lack of resources in the Indian health system — above all concerning mental health, a reunion with the family is mostly the only chance for the patient to get appropriate long-term care and treatment.
India suffers from a shortage of public psychiatric institutions — in particular facilities taking care of long-term patients are less. So taking care of chronically ill patients is mainly reflected back on families. It focuses on the question how the category "sex-gender" moulds biomedical practice in cosmopolitan psychiatric institutions in India.
Home People Annika Strauss. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. New York: Springer. Ein Fallbeispiel aus der Interkulturellen Psychiatrie. In: Ethmundo 6 ''We are like a Family''. Selbst und Person in einer indischen Psychiatrie.
