Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services

ISBN-13: 9780367762964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Amrita Bagchi

Opis

This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective- for academics in the field of medical sociology, history of medicine and health and development studies and South Asian Studies.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgement; Introduction; 1: Promises and Commitments: The Development of Healthcare Policies and Plans in Independent India; 2: Changing Paradigm in Health Sector (Plans, Policies and Reports): Mid-1980s to 2000s; 3: Public Health Sector and the Development of Nursing Homes in an Eastern Indian Metropolis: From Independence to late 1990s; 4: Causes behind the changing profile of Private Health Care Sector; 5: The Metamorphosis of Private Healthcare; Conclusion

O autorze

Amrita Bagchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Bethune College, India.