Historicizing Indian psychiatry

Our historical endeavour to map Indian psychiatry has largely remained linear, positivistic and evolutionary. Whether it starts from the ancient times or modern, it shows our past as a tale of victory for the western science, without questioning the borrowed paradigm. The use of historical methods f...

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Autor principal: Basu, Amit Ranjan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20711299
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55963
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spelling pubmed-29183002010-08-13 Historicizing Indian psychiatry Basu, Amit Ranjan Indian J Psychiatry Viewpoint Our historical endeavour to map Indian psychiatry has largely remained linear, positivistic and evolutionary. Whether it starts from the ancient times or modern, it shows our past as a tale of victory for the western science, without questioning the borrowed paradigm. The use of historical methods for serious enquiry of psychiatry has been ignored. Emergence of a new genre of historicism that is critical of both colonialism and psychiatry as a universal science, has raised hopes to critically review the emergence of psychiatric knowledge. Medknow Publications 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC2918300/ /pubmed/20711299 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55963 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2918300/
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