Development and Public Health in the Himalaya: Reflections on Healing in Contemporary Nepal

ISBN-13: 9780415659987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 164 str.

Ian Harper

Opis

This volume charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine. It engages with a range of issues - mission health care institutions, tuberculosis as a sight of ethnographic inquiry and medical intervention, the pharmaceuticalisation of mental health and public health, development ideologies and the attempted creation of modern subjects and citizens to advance the health of the nation.

Recenzje

"This is an excellent study "from the ground up," with the author’s twin disciplinary training resulting in a balanced appraisal of his subject, neither too theoretical nor too scientific, and one alive to the ambiguities of both medical and anthropological approaches." A. C. McKay, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Palpa and Its Healing Traditions 3. The view from the clinic 4. "Caught in the middle": Power, efficacy and healing 5. "It’s the Sweet Smell of Gold" – A Particular History of the Mission Hospital 6. Introducing Psychiatric Services 7. Capsular Promise as Public Health and the Vitamin A Programme 8. Creating Order from Treatment Chaos: Implementing Protocols and the Control of Tuberculosis

O autorze

Ian Harper is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.