Health , culture and religion in South Asia: critical perspectives/ edited by Assa Doron and Alex Broom - 1st ed. - London: Routledge, 2011. - 153 p.

Class and the clinic: the subject of medical pluralism and the transmission of inequality / Kalpana Ram --
Spatial boundaries and moralities of gender: considerations from obstetric and gynaecological practice in Chennai, South India / Victoria Loblay --
Occupational health, risk and science in India's global factories / Jamie Cross --
Injecting drug use and HIV in northeast India: negotiating a public health response in a complex environment / Michele Kermode, Peter Deutschmann, M.C. Arunkumar and Greg Manning --
HIV and the gurus: religiosity, plurality and the challenge of a 'Hindu' response / Nalin Mehta and Upahar Pramanik --
Unmarried Muslim youth and sex education in the Bustees of Kolkata / Kabita Chakraborty --
The intoxicated poor: alcohol, morality and power and the boatmen of Banaras / Assa Doron --
Between medicine and manthravady: agency and identity in Paniya health / Suman Badami --
Learning from infertility: gender, health inequities and faith healers in women's experiences of disrupted reproduction in Rajasthan / Maya Unnithan --
The practice and meanings of spiritual healing in Nepal / Asha Lal Tamang and Alex Broom.

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Public health -- South Asia.
Health -- Social aspects -- South Asia.
Health -- Religious aspects.

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