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Discretionary Medicine in Pakistan - Sanaullah Khan

Discretionary Medicine in Pakistan

Poverty, Coloniality and Health

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Buch | Hardcover
172 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-60020-8 (ISBN)
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This book uses the notion of ‘discretionary medicine’ to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan.
This book uses the notion of “discretionary medicine” to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan. It considers how patients frequently experience health interventions as out of touch with the suffering of everyday life and how healthcare provisions are viewed as intrusive, corrupted, and lacking in empathy towards the sick. The study focuses on mental health, acknowledging that the experience of mental illness in Pakistan is increasingly inseparable from conditions of chronic poverty caused directly by deepening inequality. The chapters address the establishment of priorities by the Pakistani healthcare system in conjunction with global disease programs and investigate the misalignments between the priorities of global institutes and local expectations/realities. It is argued that the discretionary nature of medicine is caused by the remnants of colonial-era laws, which link the maintenance of public health with questions of security. This, the author suggests, frequently contributes to forms of care that are riddled with bureaucratic violence. Using a combination of archival and ethnographic research, the book offers a multi-sited and interdisciplinary perspective on healthcare, ranging from care within low-income households and neighborhoods to diasporic communities and state institutions. It will be of interest to scholars and students of medical/psychiatric anthropology, global health, and history of medicine, as well as South Asian and Pakistan studies.

Sanaullah Khan is an assistant professor of medical anthropology at the University of Akron.

Introduction

1 Medicine, coloniality and social difference

2 Cold War Politics, bureaucracies and the birth of Pakistani Public Health

3 Prisons, Bureaucratic violence and the Uses of Psychiatry in Pakistan

4 Public health, punishment and chronicity

5 Displacement, Criminalization and Health

6 Transitory Health

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
Zusatzinfo 11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-60020-9 / 1032600209
ISBN-13 978-1-032-60020-8 / 9781032600208
Zustand Neuware
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