Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India Pinto Sarah
Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India Pinto Sarah In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's…
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Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India Pinto Sarah
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography.Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital.