Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction Entangled Epistemes 1
4. Chapter One Medicines of the Imagination Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism, and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism 26
5. Chapter Two Porous Dividuals? Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-Patient Department (OPD) 56
6. Chapter Three Medical Individualism and the Dividual Person 85
7. Chapter Four My Vaidya and My Gynecologist Agency, Authority, and Risk in Quest of a Child 118
8. Chapter Five Davā and Duā Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness 162
9. Chapter Six A Healing Practice in Kerala 200
10. Chapter Seven Ayurveda in Britain The Twin Imperatives of Professionalization and Spiritual Seeking 237
11. Contributors 261
12. Index 265