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_bSHE/H
100 _aSheikh, Kabir
245 0 _aHealth providers in India: On the frontlines of change/
_cKabir Sheikh
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bRoutledge,
_c2010.
300 _a281 p.
505 _aCover; 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.
650 _aMedical personnel -- India.
650 _aSocial medicine -- India.
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