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Historicising the People's Health Movement in West Bengal, India

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Historicising the People's Health Movement in West Bengal, India/ by Nataraj Malakar.
Author:	Malakar, Nataraj.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2025.,
Description:	xv, 404 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Social History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02696-5
ISBN:	9783032026965

Historicising the People's Health Movement in West Bengal, India
Malakar, Nataraj.

Historicising the People's Health Movement in West Bengal, India[electronic resource] /by Nataraj Malakar. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xv, 404 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1: Introducing People's Health -- 2: Tracing the Origins of the Health Movement -- 3: Diagnosing the Maladies of a Health System: A Critical Analysis -- 4: Healing the Health System: An Alternative Activism -- 5: Probing the Movement for Essential Drugs -- 6:Conclusion: Walking towards a Better World.

This book offers a critical historical analysis of the People's Health Movement in West Bengal, India, situating it within the broader context of health policy and public health developments in the region. It examines the systemic decline of the public healthcare sector alongside the rise of private medical provision, and explores how these shifts contributed to the erosion of the right to health for ordinary citizens. The study foregrounds the movement's efforts to reform the health system, including its campaigns for essential and rational drug use, and its resistance to unethical medical practices. Framing the movement as a rights-based and equity-oriented response, the book positions it as a significant example of a new social movement. It offers valuable insights into contemporary Indian social history and contributes to wider debates on health justice and policy reform. Nataraj Malakar is a historian based in India. Having studied at the University of Kalyani, in India, he now teaches in the Postgraduate Department of History at Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur and Berhampore Girls' College. His research explores the social history of health and medicine, and the history of the People's Health Movement.

ISBN: 9783032026965

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-02696-5doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

1502335
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (India)
--History.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1104891
Social History.

LC Class. No.: RA530.W48 / M35 2025

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1095414

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