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02924cam a2200277 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9788125040910 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng- |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
610.954 |
| Item number |
TOW- |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Towards a critical medical practice : |
| Sub Title |
reflections on the dilemmas of medical culture today / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Anand Zachariah, R. Srivatsan, Susie Tharu. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher |
Orient BlackSwan, |
| Year of publication |
2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xv, 373p. |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"On behalf of the CMC-Anveshi Collective." |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-356) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
section 1. Genealogies of medicine in India -- section 2. Health in the time of development : primary health care, nutrition and population control -- section 3. Tertiary care medicine, evidence based medicine, pharmaceuticals and cost -- section 4. Thinking with the patient -- section 5. Resources of practice : calibrating medicine to the needs of patients. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
High medical costs, the impersonality of technology-intensive speciality medicine and the difficulty in accessing curative primary care constitute a crisis for medicine in India. Towards a Critical Medical Practice is the outcome of a dialogue between a self-critical medicine and the new social sciences that offers original perspectives on the crisis. <br/><br/>A set of historical studies provides fresh insights into the dilemmas that surround cholera, kalaazar, post-traumatic stress disorder, ischemic heart disease, and undernutrition in contemporary India. Another group of papers argue that the public health focus on large-scale preventive programmes has resulted in the underdevelopment of primary care in the curative mode. This deficit in curative care is targeted by the new corporate hospitals that adopt as standard an expensive and inappropriate form of tertiary care that is marketed globally. Doctors trained in a tertiary setting are ill-equipped to provide appropriate medical care in any other context. This book is a path-breaking study which captures the drama of the crisis as mirrored in the lives of the poor battling illness on an everyday basis.<br/><br/>Doctors practice against this formidable backdrop of knowledge, orientation and elitism of modern medicine. The constant everyday work of translating knowledge and experience to address a local situation and do justice to the individual patient remains largely invisible and undervalued in modern medicine. We argue that theorising this practice, be it in teaching or in research, will open up new directions in health care and medical education. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Medicine |
| General subdivision |
Practice |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Medical care, Cost of |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Health facilities |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Poor |
| General subdivision |
Medical care |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Zachariah, Anand. |
| Relator term |
editor. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Srivatsan, R. |
| Relator term |
editor. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Tharu, Susie J. |
| Relator term |
editor. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
CMC-Anveshi Collective. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Books |
