Amidst the global critique of purely pharmaceutical modes of treatment for mental illnesses, there has been increased emphasis on the role of 'experts by experience' and lay workers, particularly in resource-limited settings in the form of task-shifting and task-sharing. Care, being a highly subjective and dynamic phenomenon, how it is enacted and understood depends as much on the context as on the actors and their local worlds. In this project, I explore the possibilities and ethics of care among terminally ill people with HIV/AIDS and neuropsychiatric complications in a hospice in Gujarat, India.
Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance, Mad In South Asia, February 24, 2024
The lives of terminally ill people with neuropsychiatric complications of AIDS, Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2016.