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dc.contributor.authorBrijnath, Bianca
dc.contributor.authorManderson, L.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:52:56Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:52:56Z
dc.date.created2016-05-08T19:30:24Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationBrijnath, B. and Manderson, L. 2011. Appropriation and Dementia in India. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 35 (4): pp. 501-518.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35978
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11013-011-9230-2
dc.description.abstract

Biomedical technologies like MRI scans offer a way for carers and people with dementia to 'see' pathology, as a means to reorient their perceptions of the body and functionality. Through interpretive and syncretic processes, the MRI and the diagnosis of dementia facilitate the incorporation of the clinical category 'dementia' into social understandings of illness and care in India. Complex shifts occur as families and providers move from socio-cultural explanations of disruption to bio-social etiologies of the disease 'dementia' and then to socio-ecological frameworks of causality. Both the biomedicalisation of illness and the localisation of illness occur as the clinical category 'dementia' is folded into local understandings of illness and care. Through elucidating how the dialectic between biomedical and local knowledge is operationalized, we offer insights into how dementia is absorbed and appropriated into Indian cultural contexts. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

dc.titleAppropriation and Dementia in India
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume35
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage501
dcterms.source.endPage518
dcterms.source.issn0165-005X
dcterms.source.titleCulture, Medicine and Psychiatry
curtin.departmentSchool of Occupational Therapy and Social Work
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