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Development and Public Health in the Himalaya - Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal (Hardcover, New)
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Development and Public Health in the Himalaya - Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts
important social and political transitions in Nepal through the
lens of medicine and health development. It focuses on mission
health care institutions, tuberculosis control programmes as a site
of medical intervention, the "pharmaceuticalization" of mental
health and public health, and in relation to development ideologies
the attempted creation of modern subjects and citizens to advance
the health of the nation. Based on two decades of experience, both
as a physician and public health professional and an
anthropologist, the author presents these issues through four case
studies of health programme intervention in a district in central
Nepal to show the inter-related aspects of the processes. The book
explains how local realities align with, resist, and are
complicated by globalized narratives and practices of health and
development. It pays careful attention to traditional healers,
infectious disease, micronutrient initiatives, mental health and
the historical, ideological, and political-economic context of
mission-based development work. Offering an ethnographic picture of
the challenges and possibilities for action that exist in Nepal ,
this book is of interest to academics in the field of medical and
development anthropology and those working directly in the fields
of health and development.
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