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ISBN | 9789353281915 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | xiv, 256p.; 23 cm. Bibliography Includes Index. |
Product Weight | 490 gms. |
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Against All Odds: Psychosocial Distress and Healing among Women uses vivid ethnographic narratives to study linkages between socio-economic conditions and the mental health of women living in low-income neighbourhoods of big cities. After presenting anthropological insights related to the understanding of madness, mental health and mental illness, the author illustrates how the social position of women and factors inherent in urbanism have an impact on the level of psychosocial distress they experience. The book further explores the increasing medicalization of social problems whereby instead of actual problems being addressed, women get 'treated'.