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Doctors for Democracy
Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution
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by Vincanne Adams
Cambridge University Press
Due/Published
June 1998, 263 pages,
paper
ISBN
0521585481
This book examines the role of Nepali physicians in the revolutionary changes in 1990. These Western trained doctors have always been concerned to develop a form of medical practice relevant to Nepali conditions,speaking to local conceptions about health, and so their medical practice was always politicised. 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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