Public Health and Private Wealth

Stem Cells, Surrogates, and Other Strategic Bodies.
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-946337-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Poverty whether as drain theory at the start of the twentieth century or through garibi hatao towards the end of those 100 yearswas the predominant economic, political, and social paradigm within which late colonial, nationalist and post-independence era science policy was constructed. Whether as critics of Indias poverty, or as architects of measures for its eradication, Indias commentators called on a broad framework of science both to diagnose and treat poverty. Yet, when we think of science in India today, this earlier priority of poverty eradication is now hard to find. Poverty eradication as a goal in itself seems to have fallen off Indias scientific agenda almost entirely. What accounts for this? This volume asks: Has the problem of poverty in India been solved? Or, has it become inconvenient alongside the rise of new narratives that frame India as a site of remarkable economic growth? Indeed, has there been a loss of faith in the ability of science to tackle poverty? Together, the essays in this volume explore the broader implications for the new role of science in India: as a driver of economic growth for India, rather than as a solution to the persistence of poverty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodges, Sarah

Rao, Mohan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction: Science, Technology and Medicine in India: The problem of poverty

- Sarah Hodges and Mohan Rao

- Part 1: The quest for improvement

- 1.Colonial Poverty: Nutrition, disease and the problem of the poor

- David Arnold

- 2.Tubercular Optics: Health, techno-science and the obfuscation of poverty

- Lakshmi Kutty

- 3.Surveillance for Equity? Poverty, inequality and the anti-politics of family planning

- Rebecca Williams

- Part 2: Indias Hospitals: For whom?

- 4.Globalisation and the Health of a Megacity: The case of Mumbai

- Ramila Bisht and Altaf Virani

- 5.Commericalisation and the poverty of public health services in India

- Rama Baru

- 6.It all changed after Apollo and other corporate hospital myths

- Sarah Hodges

- Part 3: National Techno-science and Promising Bodies

- 7. The Globalization of Reproduction in India: From population control to surrogacy

- Mohan Rao

- 8. Biotechnology in India: Catalyst for a knowledge era?

- Priya Ranjan

- 9. Stem Cell Research and Experimentation in India: Leveraging hope for global prominence

- Rohini Kandhari

- 10. Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge: Genealogy of a metaconcept

- Dhruv Raina

- Notes on Editors and Contributors

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Hodges is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK.

Mohan Rao is Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.