Eradicating blindness : global health innovation from South Asia
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Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Williams, Logan D. A. szerző Eradicating blindness global health innovation from South Asia by Logan D. A. Williams 1st ed. 2019 Singapore Springer Singapore Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2019 XV, 369 p. ill. ; online forrás szöveg txt rdacontent számítógépes c rdamedia távoli hozzáférés cr rdacarrier szövegfájl PDF rda Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Origins of an Autonomous Global Network to Eradicate Blindness -- 3. Balancing the Scales: Appropriate Technology and Social Entrepreneurship -- 4. Witnessing Rural Blindness: Standardizing Benchmarks from Eye Camps -- 5. A Lab of Our Own: Technology Diffusion from Incumbent Regime -- 6. The Hard Case Of White Cataracts: Appropriation of Surgical Science -- 7. Training The New Cadre: Translation of Interlocking Innovations -- 8. Evidence-Based Medicine: Contesting the Phaco-Regime -- 9. Conclusion: Innovation from Below -- 10. Appendix A: The Extended Case Method and Global Ethnography -- 11 Appendix B: The Robin Hood Model -- Organizational Charts for Four Community Ophthalmology Units -- Glossary of Common Ophthalmology Surgical Terms -- Index. This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor. Their innovations contested economic and scientific norms, and spread from India and Nepal outwards to other countries in Africa and Asia, as well as the United States, Australia, and Finland. This feminist postcolonial global ethnography illustrates how these innovations have resulted in dual socio-technical systems to solve the problem of avoidable blindness. Policymakers and activists might use this example of how to avoid Schumacher's critique of low labor, large scale and implement Gandhi's philosophy of good for all. Nyomtatott kiadás: ISBN 9789811316241 Nyomtatott kiadás: ISBN 9789811316265 Nyomtatott kiadás: ISBN 9789811346569 Az e-könyvek a teljes ELTE IP-tartományon belül online elérhetők. e-book könyv Technology Sociological aspects Social medicine Medical anthropology orvosi antropológia egészségügy Ázsia elektronikus könyv SpringerLink (Online service) közreadó testület Online változat https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1625-8 EUL01 |
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Eradicating blindness : global health innovation from South Asia |
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global health innovation from South Asia |
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XV, 369 p. : ill. ; online forrás |
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1st ed. 2019 |
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This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor. Their innovations contested economic and scientific norms, and spread from India and Nepal outwards to other countries in Africa and Asia, as well as the United States, Australia, and Finland. This feminist postcolonial global ethnography illustrates how these innovations have resulted in dual socio-technical systems to solve the problem of avoidable blindness. Policymakers and activists might use this example of how to avoid Schumacher's critique of low labor, large scale and implement Gandhi's philosophy of good for all. |