Doctors for Democracy

Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-58548-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology

This book examines the role of the Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These doctors are trained in the Western tradition, and participate in international scientific debates, yet they have always been concerned to develop a form of medical practice that was relevant to Nepali conditions, and which could speak to local conceptions about health, and so their medical practice was always politicized. Vincanne Adams argues that the commitment of these professionals to the values of science, and to public health, was crucial in their political activity, and that ideas and practices associated with the notions of 'democracy' and of 'science' supported each other. Describing her book as 'a story that explores how very fine the line is between politics and scientific medical truth claims', it therefore encompasses both the modern political history of Nepal and the role of medicine in a poor, largely rural, Hindu kingdom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Vincanne

Harwood, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Doctors, science and democracy in the developing world; 3. History and power in Nepal; 4. Revolutionary medicine: scientists for democracy; 5. Dividing lines: motivations of the medical professionals; 6. Medicine and politics; 7. Post-revolutionary political medicine: corruption or validation of truth?; 8. Science, fetishism, truth, and privilege.