Passive Patient Culture in India

Auteur

Supriya Subramani is Lecturer at Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She explores morality, behaviour, and attitudes in healthcare contexts. She employs ethnographic and phenomenological methods, adopting an interdisciplinary approach, to study moral emotions, such as humiliation, and moral concepts, including respect, othering, and belonging. Her current projects focus on migrant health and belonging, chronic pain, and epistemological and methodological questions concerning the relationship between emotions, self, other, and knowledge production.

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This book critiques the archetype of the "passive patient" entrenched in both medicine and law in India-an image that undermines agency, diminishes self-respect, and sustains a culture of disrespect.

Résumé
This book critiques the archetype of the passive patient entrenched in both medicine and law in Indiaan image that undermines agency, diminishes self-respect, and sustains a culture of disrespect.

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*Copyright Permissions and Acknowledgements

• *To the Many Whom I Thank!
  Preface- Finding Voice
  Introduction- The Silent Struggle

• Chapter 1: Situation Parenthood
  Chapter 2: Rhetoric of Passive Patient in the Indian Legal Discourse
  Chapter 3: Construction of Incompetent Patient
  Chapter 4: The Everyday Indignities: Institutionalising Passive Patienthood
  Chapter 5: Towards Recognition in an Unequal World

Afterword- With Rage, Resistance and Hope: A Culture of Self-Respect
Appendix