The rhetoric of women and children's rights in Indian psychiatry

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-84

  Marrow, Jocelyn ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; India; medical anthropology; psychiatry; social class

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILDREN RIGHT; COUNSELING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EMPOWERMENT; EXHORTATION; FAMILY VIOLENCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MORALITY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 84876491709     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2012.747590     Document Type: Article

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