Multiple Voices and Stories

Contents List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations Introduction Section I: Voices from the Margin: Health Providers and Healers One Moral narratives and biomedical critiques in the accounts of bone doctors and their clients 27 Two “No one medicine is enough”: Accounts of complementary therapy practitioners in Delhi 46 Three Outcaste women, cast-out birth knowledge 75 Four Narratives of Tulu-speaking healers in Karnataka 94 Five “Numerical narratives”: Accounts of lay health workers in Odisha 121 Section II: “Doing” Health: Stories of Health and Illness Six Where there is no doctor: Narratives on biomedical healthcare practitioners in Chennai, South India 143 seven Health and sex work: Structures as narrative nodes 173 eight Living with diabetes: Accounts of South Asian migrants in the United Kingdom 193 nine “We were never sick in our time”: Social change, food and identity in Uttarakhand 218 ten Fertility narrative: A Proppian approach 239 Section III: Narrative Approach to Mental Health: Two Contrasting Case Studies Eleven Silent voices: Narratives in child mental health 269 Twelve Are narratives a legitimate tool of diagnosis? 290 appendix Facing a catastrophic illness: Lessons from a personal encounter 304 Notes on Contributors Index