Discretionary Medicine in Pakistan

Auteur

Sanaullah Khan is an assistant professor of medical anthropology at the University of Akron.

Texte du rabat

This book uses the notion of 'discretionary medicine' to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan.

Contenu

Introduction

1 Medicine, coloniality and social difference

2 Cold War Politics, bureaucracies and the birth of Pakistani Public Health

3 Prisons, Bureaucratic violence and the Uses of Psychiatry in Pakistan

4 Public health, punishment and chronicity

5 Displacement, Criminalization and Health

6 Transitory Health

Conclusion