Biomedicine, healing and modernity in rural Bangladesh

Dublin Core

Title

Biomedicine, healing and modernity in rural Bangladesh

Author

Shah, Md. Faruk

Publisher

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Place of Publication

Singapore: Singapore

No. of Pages

323 p.

Language

English

Primary Classification

9.1

Secondary Classification

9.1; 9.8

Primary keywords

health care delivery [pri]; quality of health care [pri]; rural population [pri]

Secondary keywords

culture; drug industry; private sector; public health; public policy; public sector; social class; socioeconomic factors; vulnerable population

Subject

Bangladesh

Note

Copyright: The Author, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

Primary Document Type

b

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- 2. The Public Health Care Bureaucracy: Narratives fro mRural 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

Call Number

RA771.7.B3 S53 2020

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references and index

ISBN

ISBN 9789813291423
ISBN 9789813291430 (e-book)

Collection

Citation

“Biomedicine, healing and modernity in rural Bangladesh,” Islamic Medical & Scientific Ethics, accessed January 16, 2025, https://imse.ibp.georgetown.domains/items/show/38157.