Global Mental Health: the Indian case

Mental Health issues are of particular urgency in India these days, not only because awareness of mental health issues has dramatically increased in recent years, but also because ambitious plans are afoot to build capacity in this area (e.g. Public Health Foundation India, WHO plans for building capacity in Mental Health). Controversies are raging over the type and quantity of services that should be offered, and experts from the AROGYAM network are especially well placed to discuss and comment on these issues.

Conference themes will include

1.  The political economy of mental health

2.  Psychopharmaceuticals (marketing strategies, ethnographies of use)

3.  Global circulation of knowledge and techniques (psychiatry and psychology, yoga, meditation)

4.  Influence of new technologies on mental health (e.g. communication);

5.  History, law, and policy;

6. Faith, religion, and ritual

7. Mental health discourses as disciplining discourses

8.  Palliative care
 

Kontakt:

Sandra Joost
Südasien Insitut
Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330

E-Mail: sandra.joost@uni-heidelberg.de

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Letzte Änderung: 19.02.2014
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