Health, culture and religion in South Asia : critical perspectives / edited by Assa Doron and Alex Broom
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2011
Descript
x, 153p. : ill. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
Class and the clinic: the subject of medical pluralism and the transmission of inequality -- Spatial boundaries and moralities of gender: considerations from obstetric and gynaecological practice in Chennai, South India -- Occupational health, risk and science in India's global factories -- Injecting drug use and HIV in northeast India: negotiating a public health response in a complex environment -- HIV and the gurus: religiosity, plurality and the challenge of a "Hindu" response -- Unmarried Muslim youth and sex education in the Bustees of Kolkata -- The intoxicated poor: alcohol, morality and power and the boatmen of Banaras -- Between medicine and manthravady: a gency and identity in Paniya health -- Learning from infertility: gender, health inequities and faith healers in women's experiences of disrupted reproduction in Rajasthan -- The practice and meanings of spiritual healing in Nepal