Conceptions of Mental Illness and Psychopharmaceuticals in Global Health

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3076945
AutoresJanis Hunter Jenkins (0000-0003-4987-3075, University of California System, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume32
Fascículo2
Páginas117-128
Data de publicação2023-11-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRevista de Antropología Social (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1131-558X • E-ISSN: 1696-7534
EditoraUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5209/raso.91745
OpenAlexW4388844172
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

The field of global health has prioritized the scaling up of services and treatment for mental health in low and middle-income countries. While equitable access to treatments constitutes a priority, the call for urgent action to fill the treatment gap has been advanced largely in the absence of an appeal for ethnographic attention to sociocultural knowledge of conditions and their treatment. This article argues that local knowledge of conceptions of mental illness and psychotropic medication is foundational for an informed understanding of treatment in relation to subjective experience, cultural meaning, and clinical efficacy. These issues are specifically explored in relation to scientific, clinical, and popular discourse surrounding the cultural trope of "chemical imbalance

Action (physics · Appeal · Ethnography · Global mental health · Meaning (existential · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Relation (database · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Trope (literature · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment