Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution

by Vincanne Adams

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521584869
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/26/1998
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology , #6
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Doctors, science and democracy in the developing world; 3. History and power in Nepal; 4. Revolutionary medicine: scientists for democracy; 5. Dividing lines: motivations of the medical professionals; 6. Medicine and politics; 7. Post-revolutionary political medicine: corruption or validation of truth?; 8. Science, fetishism, truth, and privilege.