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Rethinking Public Institutions in India - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2017 - 527p

Part I. The Quest for `Improvement'
1. Colonial Poverty: Nutrition, Disease and the Problem of the Poor / David Arnold
2. Tubercular Optics: Health, Techno-science and the Obfuscation of Poverty / Lakshmi Kutty
3. Surveillance for Equity'? Poverty, Inequality and the Anti-politics of Family Planning / Rebecca Williams

Part II. India's Hospitals: For Whom?
4. Globalization and the Health of a Megacity: The Case of Mumbai / Altaf Virani
5. Commercialization and the Poverty of Public Health Services in India / Rama Baru
6. It All Changed after Apollo' and Other Corporate Hospital Myths / Sarah Hodges

Part III. National Techno-science and Promising Bodies
7. The Globalization of Reproduction in India: From Population Control to Surrogacy / Mohan Rao
8. Biotechnology in India: Catalyst for a Knowledge Era? / Priya Ranjan
9. Stem Cell Research and Experimentation in India: Leveraging Hope for Global Prominence / Rohini Kandhari.

ISBN: 9780199474370

Subjects--Personal Names:
Medical innovations - India
Stem Cell Research - Economics.

Dewey Class. No.: 351.54 / RET