Development and Public Health in the Himalaya
Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal
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- English
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Development and Public Health in the Himalaya
Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Nepali transliteration and dates
- Nepali glossary
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Palpa and its healing traditions
- 3 âThe view from the clinicâ: healing as viewed from the perspective of the modern
- 4 âCaught in the middleâ: power, efficacy and healing
- 5 Bird trips and medicines: a particular history of the mission hospital
- 6 Dealing with âmultiple physical complaintsâ: introducing psychiatric services
- 7 âMedicines and syrups! Such is the manner of livingâ: capsular promise as public health and the vitamin A programme
- 8 Creating order from treatment chaos: implementing protocols and the control of tuberculosis
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index