Bücher der Reihe Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology

Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands, this volume brings a 21st-century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the manner in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds.

Is Western medical technology necessarily a good thing, or can it be dangerous? This book investigates its impact on midwives, healers and mothers giving birth in India today.