Publications - a selection

Becka, Hynek, Samiksha Bhan, Desirée Kumpf, Claudia Lang, Hanna Nieber, Julia Vorhölter, and Hanna Werner. 2024. Universality in pieces? Mobilizations of science in a fractured world; introduction. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1): 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v149i1.1874 .

Lang, Claudia and Sonali Sathaye. 2024. From context-free to aggregate universality: life skills courses and the making of automated therapy in Bengaluru, India. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1): 13–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v149i1.1875.

Lang, Claudia and Dominik Mattes. 2021. Embodied belonging: in/exclusion, health care, and well-being in a world in motion. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 45(1): 2–21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-020-09693-3.

Lang, Claudia. 2020. Neurochemistry and subjunctivities of depression in Kerala, South India. Anthropology and Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2019.1651585.

Lang, Claudia. 2019. Inspecting mental health: depression, surveillance and care in Kerala, south India. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 43: 596–612. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09656-3 .

Lovell, Anne M., Ursula M. Read, and Claudia Lang. 2019. Genealogies and anthropologies of global mental health. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 43: 519–547. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09660-7.

Lang, Claudia. 2018. Translation and purification: Ayurvedic psychiatry, allopathic psychiatry, spirits and occult violence in Kerala, South India. Anthropology and Medicine 25(2): 141–161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1285001.

Lang, Claudia. 2014. Trick or treat? Muslim Thangals, psychologisation and pragmatic realism in Northern Kerala, India. Transcultural Psychiatry 51(6): 904–923. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461514525221.

Lang, Claudia and Eva Jansen. 2013. Appropriating depression: biomedicalizing Ayurvedic psychiatry in Kerala, India. Medical Anthropology 32(1): 25–45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2012.674584.

Jansen, Eva and Claudia Lang. 2012. Transforming the self and healing the body through the use of testimonies in a divine retreat center, Kerala. Journal of Religion and Health 51: 542–551. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-011-9564-7.

Lang, Claudia. 2012. Ayurvedische Pillen gegen Depression: die Kommodifizierung ayurvedischer "Antidepressiva". Curare 35(3): 177–185.

Lang, Claudia and Ursula Kuhnle. 2008. Intersexuality and alternative gender categories in non-western cultures. Hormone Research in Paediatrics 69(4): 240–250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000113025.

Beaudevin, Claire, Fanny Chabrol, and Claudia Lang. 2022. Persistent hospitals. In: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 147–169.

Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, and Claudia Lang. 2022. Introduction: health universalism and the health of others. In: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 5–28.

Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin. 2022. Triage beyond the clinic. In: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 78–102.

Lang, Claudia, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, and Jean-Paul Gaudillière. 2022. Epilogue: global health for all; COVID-19 and beyond. In: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 196–201.

Lovell, Anne M., Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin. 2022. Metrics for development. In: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 26–77.

McDowell, Andrew, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, and Jean-Paul Gaudillière. 2022. Prologue: a story with sixteen tellers. In: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 1–4.

McDowell, Andrew, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, and Vegard Traavik Sture. 2022. Tech for all. In: Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 124–146.

Lang, Claudia. 2021. Ayurvedic psychiatry and the moral physiology of depression in Kerala. In: William Sax (ed.). The movement for global mental health: critical views from South and Southeast Asia. Social Studies in Asian Medicine. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 243–269.

Sax, William S. and Claudia Lang. 2021. Global mental health: views from South Asia and beyond. In: William Sax (ed.). The movement for global mental health: critical views from South and Southeast Asia. Social Studies in Asian Medicine. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 7–38.

Lang, Claudia. 2018. Traditional medicine against modern suffering: ayurvedic pharmaceuticals for depression in Kerala, South India. In: Philipp Zehmisch, Ursula Münster, Jens Zickgraf, and Claudia Lang (eds.). Soziale Ästhetik, Atmosphäre, Medialität: Beiträge aus der Ethnologie. Ethnologie 66. Berlin; Münster: LIT, pp. 151–160.

Zickgraf, Jens, Claudia Lang, Ursula Münster, and Philipp Zehmisch. 2018. Einleitung. In: Philipp Zehmisch, Ursula Münster, Jens Zickgraf, and Claudia Lang (eds.). Soziale Ästhetik, Atmosphäre, Medialität: Beiträge aus der Ethnologie. Ethnologie 66. Berlin; Münster: LIT, pp. 7–17.

Lang, Claudia and Ursula Kuhnle-Krahl. 2009. Intersexualität: zwischen den Geschlechtern, zwischen den Kulturen. In: Reiner Frank (ed.). Kinder zwischen den Kulturen: Migration, Integration, seelische Gesundheit. München: Marseille, pp. 81–89.

Lang, Claudia. 2008. Konflikte um den "intersexuellen Körper": embodied experiences. Intersexualität bei Kindern. Bremen; London; Boston: UNI-MED, pp. 124–127.

Lovell, Anne M., Ursula M. Read, and Claudia Lang (eds.). 2019. Genealogies and anthropologies of global mental health. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 43(4).

Lang, Claudia. 2020. Vernacular medicine in colonial India: family, market and homoeopathy, by Shinjini Das, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 292 pp. South Asia 43(4): 793–794. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1777366.

Lang, Claudia. 2020. Vernacular medicine in colonial India: family, market and homoeopathy; by Shinjini Das, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 292 pp. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43(4): 793–794. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1777366.

Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin (eds.). 2022. Global health for all: knowledge, politics, and practices. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Sax, William and Claudia Lang (eds.). 2021. The movement for global mental health: critical views from South and Southeast Asia. Social Studies in Asian Medicine. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Zehmisch, Philipp, Ursula Münster, Jens Zickgraf, and Claudia Lang (eds.). 2018. Soziale Ästhetik, Atmosphäre, Medialität: Beiträge aus der Ethnologie. Ethnologie 66. Berlin; Münster: LIT.

Lang, Claudia. 2018. Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and mental health care in 21st century India. Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology. London; New York: Routledge.

Lang, Claudia. 2006. Intersexualität: Menschen zwischen den Geschlechtern. Frankfurt/Main: Campus.