Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India

by Stefan M Ecks and Stefan M. Ecks

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 drugs?

Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many prescriptions as possible, with as little awkward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814724760
• ISBN13: 9780814724767
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"