TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheikh, Kabir
TI  - Health providers in India: On the frontlines of change
SN  - 9780415579773
U1  - 362.10954 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Medical personnel -- India
KW  - Social medicine -- India
N1  - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. India's Health Providers --
Diverse Frontiers, Disparate Fortunes; 
PART I. GOVERNMENT HEALTH WORKERS: UNEASY AT THE BOTTOM; 
Chapter 1. Government Rural Health Assistants as Social Beings: Neither Passive nor Perverse; 
Chapter 2. The Midwifery Role of the Auxiliary Nurse Midwife: The Effect of Policy and Programmatic Changes; 
Chapter 3. Dilemmas and Conflicts of HIV Counsellors in VCTCs: Experiences from Karnataka. 

PART II. DOCTORS: VEXED RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PUBLIC GOOD
Chapter 4. Public Sector Doctors in an Era of Commercialisation: Reflections from Senior AIIMS Doctors; 
Chapter 5. Working with Private Practitioners on a Public Health Intervention: The 'Key Clinics' Experience; 
Chapter 6. Understanding Practitioners' Responses to National Policy Guidelines: The Case of HIV Testing in Hospitals; 
Chapter 7. The Dynamics of Medicos' Anti-Reservation Protests of 2006: A Lens on Their Political Actions; 

PART III. TRADITIONAL AND HOME CARE PROVIDERS: THE EDGE OF LEGITIMACY. 
Chapter 8. The Community Role of Indigenous Healers: An Exploration of Healing Values in Maharashtra
Chapter 9 Traditional Orthopaedic Practitioners' Place in Contemporary Health: A Case Study from Southern India; 
Chapter 10: The Critical Role of Family Care Providers in HIV/AIDS: Stories from Rural Maharashtra; 

PART IV: ADAPTING, TRANSFORMING: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL SPACES; 
Chapter 11: Sexual Harassment of Women Health Workers: Individual and Organisational Responses in Kolkata Hospitals. 
Chapter 12: Gender and Health Training of Male Multipurpose Workers: Challenges and Lessons Learnt from MumbaiPoems; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index
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