| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 394 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Series |
People, cultures and societies: exploring and documenting diversities |
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People, cultures and societies: exploring and documenting diversities
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| Contents |
Of prejudice and pandemics -- Part I. Institutional exclusions. Exceptional Aryans : state misrecognition of Himachali Dalits -- A world inside a pig's stomach : alimentary knots of tension around nutrition, autonomy and nationhood -- The role of caste prejudice in hampering infection control efforts in government hospitals -- Public and corporate health sector disparities : reflections on COVID-19 experiences in India -- Knowledge accumulation during COVID-19 : increasing digital divide and vulnerability among Indian students -- Segregation of Muslims : a reflection on urban living environments and infrastructure conditions in Hyderabad -- Experiences of and responses to COVID-19 in a Ho tribal village in Jharkhand. Part II. COVID-19 disparities. Disability, access to food and COVID-19 : an intersectional analysis -- Inequality in access to healthcare for persons with disability during COVID-19 : an illustration from Bangladesh -- How do pandemics affect frontline health interventions? Insights from the national tuberculosis elimination programme in Bengaluru, India -- Lone warriors in the COVID-19 lockdown : impediments and resilience of women in Allahabad District, India - COVID-19 and violence against women in India -- Part III. Health inequalities. Inequality and exclusion in access to healthcare : learning from the pandemic -- Caste disparities in health care utilization in India -- Reflections on gendered health inequalities within households -- Tea plantation workers and the human cost of Darjeeling tea -- Socioeconomic disparities in access and utilization of health care services in Nepal -- Social epidemiology of chronic kidney disease with uncertain etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka : persistent inequalities among agricultural communities in a dry zone |
| Summary |
This book explores how social discrimination in South Asia contributes to health disparities and impedes well-being. Specifically, it addresses how marginalization shapes health outcomes, both under normal circumstances and specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming from diverse backgrounds and representing different academic disciplines, the authors have contributed a range of chapters drawing from quantitative and ethnographic material across South Asia. Chapters address reservation politics, tribal lifeways, Dalit exclusions from governmental institutions, Muslim ghettoization, gendered domestic violence, social determinants of health among migrant workers, and the pandemic fallout across South Asian society, among other subjects. Scholars draw on decades of experience and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork among affected communities. The chapters provide an innovative analysis, often in real time, of the human toll of casteism, classism, patriarchy, and religious intolerancemany set against the spectre of COVID-19. Many authors not only present social critiques but also offer specific policy recommendations. The book is of great interest to social scientists, public health practitioners, and policy advocates interested in addressing systemic inequalities and ensuring that future pandemics are not disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Discrimination in medical care -- South Asia
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- South Asia
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Discrimination in medical care
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Acharya, Sanghmitra, editor
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Christopher, Stephen, editor
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| ISBN |
9789811669170 |
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9811669171 |
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