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Biomedicine, healing and modernity in rural Bangladesh / Md. Faruk Shah.
Van Pelt Library RA771.7.B3 S53 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shah, Faruk, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural health--Bangladesh.
- Rural health.
- Rural health services--Bangladesh.
- Rural health services.
- Medical care--Bangladesh.
- Medical care.
- Medicine--Bangladesh.
- Medicine.
- Rural development--Bangladesh.
- Rural development.
- Bangladesh.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 323 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, [2020]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 2. The Public Health Care Bureaucracy: Narratives from Rural Clinics
- 3. Public Health Care Centres: Policies and Practice
- 4. Private Health Care, Quality and Corruption
- 5. Biomedicine and Modernity: The Case of the "Village Doctors"
- 6. Pharmaceutical Promotion, Quality and Governance
- 7. Gendered Politics of Modernity: Family Planning and Reproductive Health
- 8. Conclusion: Local Biomedicine, Structural Violence and Social Inequality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789813291454
- 9813291451
- OCLC:
- 1223071439
- Publisher Number:
- 99987974378
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