Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India by Stefan Ecks

Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India

Biopolitics

Stefan Ecks

233 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative medium-paced
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A Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter how--or whether--patients understand their prescribed d...

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