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Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which
biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been
localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system
in rural Bangladesh. Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological
critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the
existing social inequalities and disparities in healthcare are
intensified by the practices undertaken in biomedical health
centres through the healthcare bureaucracy and local gendered
politics. This work of villagers' healthcare practices leads to a
fascinating analysis of the local healthcare bureaucracy,
corruption, structural violence, commodification of health,
pharmaceutical promotional strategies and gender discrimination in
population control. Shah argues that biomedicine has already
achieved cultural authority and acceptability at almost all levels
of the health sector in Bangladesh. However, in this system
healthcare bureaucracy is shaped by social capital, power relations
and kin networks, and corruption is a central element of daily care
practices.
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