1st Edition
Development and Public Health in the Himalaya Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal
By Ian Harper
Copyright 2014
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Palpa and Its Healing Traditions 3. The view from the clinic 4. "Caught in the middle": Power, efficacy and healing 5. "It’s the Sweet Smell of Gold" – A Particular History of the Mission Hospital 6. Introducing Psychiatric Services 7. Capsular Promise as Public Health and the Vitamin A Programme 8. Creating Order from Treatment Chaos: Implementing Protocols and the Control of Tuberculosis
Biography
Ian Harper is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
"This is an excellent study "from the ground up," with the author’s twin disciplinary training resulting in a balanced appraisal of his subject, neither too theoretical nor too scientific, and one alive to the ambiguities of both medical and anthropological approaches." A. C. McKay, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden
