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Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology #6)
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Publication Date: March 26th, 1998
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
9780521584869
Pages:
266
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Description
This book examines the role of Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These Western trained doctors have always been concerned with developing a form of medical practice relevant to Nepali conditions, that speaks to local conceptions about health, and so their medical practice was always politicized. The author reveals how very fine the line is between politics and scientific medical truth claims. Her study encompasses both the modern political history of Nepal and the role of medicine in a poor, largely rural, Hindu kingdom.
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