Culture, Health and Development in South Asia: Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh - Couverture rigide

Livre 111 sur 161: Routledge Contemporary South Asia

Islam, M.

 
9781138654082: Culture, Health and Development in South Asia: Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
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ISBN 10 : 1138654086 ISBN 13 : 9781138654082
Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported, 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly arsenicosis symptoms. The severity and extent of arsenicosis have obliged the government of Bangladesh to declare it the "worst national disaster" the country has ever faced, and further to be deemed a "state of emergency." To fight this pervasive public health disaster, the Bangladesh government has collaborated with the international and national NGOs to implement development projects to provide arsenic-free water to rural villagers.

Drawing upon ethnographic research in rural Southwestern Bangladesh, this book discusses arsenic contamination and its resultant health impact from a medical anthropological and anthropology of development perspectives. It examines how the actual patients perceive, explain, manage and respond to this catastrophic public health outbreak, and goes on to analyse how such lay perceptions shape health-seeking behaviour of subjects in a medically plural context. To make the issue more holistic, this book further examines mitigation strategies and community participation in these projects.

Challenging approaches to development and development project management, the book is of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics working in the field of development studies, South Asian studies, medical anthropology, anthropology and sociology of development.

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À propos de l'auteur

M. Saiful Islam is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interests include medical anthropology; cultural dimensions of health and illness; health, environment, and sustainable development.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138654086
ISBN 13 
9781138654082
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
148
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780367877712: Culture, Health and Development in South Asia

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ISBN 10 :  0367877716 ISBN 13 :  9780367877712
Editeur : Routledge, 2019
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