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Institutionalizing illness narratives = discourses on fever care from southern India /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Institutionalizing illness narratives/ by Mathew George.
Reminder of title:	discourses on fever care from southern India /
Author:	George, Mathew.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2017.,
Description:	xxvi, 169 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Fever therapy - India, South. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1905-0
ISBN:	9789811019050

Institutionalizing illness narratives = discourses on fever care from southern India /
George, Mathew.

Institutionalizing illness narrativesdiscourses on fever care from southern India /[electronic resource] :by Mathew George. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2017. - xxvi, 169 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1. Interpreting Illness, Disease, Medicine and Medical Care -- Chapter 2. Historical Discourses on Fevers -- Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Fever Epidemics and Fever Care in Contemporary Kerala -- Chapter 4. Fear of Fevers: Risk, Medicalisation and Provisioning -- Chapter 5. Biomedicine Examined: Interpreting Culture of Fever Care. - Chapter 6. Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction -- Chapter 7. Fever talk as sub-culture of Fever care.

This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also the history of medicine. This association between fevers and medicine is as relevant today, as this in-depth study of fever care reveals. Acknowledging the central role of health institutions in creating and propagating notions about illness in society, the author examines fever care through a study of hospitals. The study examines various discourses on fevers prevalent in the southern state of Kerala, which influence policy and programmatic dimensions of the state health services system. Fever care implies those aspects related to provisioning and cost involved among public and private sector hospitals. A second and more important dimension of this book is a critique of the culture of biomedical practice, informed by the social constructivist framework and approaches in the field of science studies. Overall, the book studies the processes by which physical symptoms like fever are treated as epidemics to be controlled, and are therefore brought within a biomedical system, thereby opening up options for commercialization of care.

ISBN: 9789811019050

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-10-1905-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1246970
Fever therapy
--India, South.

LC Class. No.: RM868

Dewey Class. No.: 616.047

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