Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Md Faruk Shah
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	323
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-981-3291-42-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology Promotions
LSN:	981-3291-42-7
Barcode:	9789813291423

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