Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India Dr. Muzaffer Aslan

Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India Dr. Muzaffer AslanRegional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes the management of madness in one of these asylum like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement. The author explores the

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