Drugs & prayers - Indian psychiatry in the realm of saints.

Other author Basu, Helena, director.
Format Video (Streaming)
Publication InfoLondon, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001.
Description1 online resource (55 min.).
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1879568
Subjects

SeriesEthnographic video online, volume 2
Abstract The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community care in the mental health sector. The film documents exchanges between various actors at the shrine and listens to the stories of the protagonists. It presents different views on the presumed causes of mental illness as well as on the benefit or non-benefit of medicine or ritual practices as perceived by patients and their relatives.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
Other formsPreviously released as DVD.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
LanguageThis edition in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles.
Genre/formNonfiction films.

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