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Culture, Health and Development in South Asia

This book carries a timely intervention into biomedical discourses about arsenicosis, billed as a long-standing national health disaster in Bangladesh. Relying on ethnographic work the author privileges patients perspectives by documenting how the biomedical reality of arsenicosis has been vernacularized as ghaa in practice. The turn to alternative healing to manage ghaa suggests strongly both the therapeutic and cultural limits of biomedicine. The book carries insights about the need for community ownership and engagement in order to imagine sustainable and viable solutions to the problem of arsenic poisoning. I would unhesitatingly recommend this as a must read book for medical anthropology students and scholars as well as health practitioners and policy makers.

Vineeta Sinha, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported, 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly arsenicosis symptoms. The severity and extent of arsenicosis have obliged the government of Bangladesh to declare it the worst national disaster the country has ever faced, and further to be deemed a state of emergency. To fight this pervasive public health disaster, the Bangladesh government has collaborated with the international and national NGOs to implement development projects to provide arsenic-free water to rural villagers.

Drawing upon ethnographic research in rural Southwestern Bangladesh, this book discusses arsenic contamination and its resultant health impact from a medical anthropological and anthropology of development perspectives. It examines how the actual patients perceive, explain, manage and respond to this catastrophic public health outbreak, and goes on to analyse how such lay perceptions shape health-seeking behaviour of subjects in a medically plural context. To make the issue more holistic, this book further examines mitigation strategies and community participation in these projects.

Challenging approaches to development and development project management, the book is of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics working in the field of development studies, South Asian studies, medical anthropology, anthropology and sociology of development.

M. Saiful Islam is an anthropologist and Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interests include medical anthropology; cultural dimensions of health and illness; health, environment, and sustainable development. He is the author of Pursuing alternative development: Indigenous people, ethnic organization and agency (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

1	Pakistan Social and cultural transformations in a Muslim nation Mohammad A. Qadeer
2	Labor, Democratization and Development in India and Pakistan Christopher Candland
3	ChinaIndia Relations Contemporary dynamics Amardeep Athwal
4	Madrasas in South Asia Teaching terror? Jamal Malik
5	Labor, Globalization and the State Workers, women and migrants confront neoliberalism Edited by Debdas Banerjee and Michael Goldfield
6	Indian Literature and Popular Cinema Recasting classics Edited by Heidi R.M. Pauwels
7	Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh A complex web Ali Riaz
8	Regionalism in South Asia Negotiating cooperation, institutional structures Kishore C. Dash
9	Federalism, Nationalism and Development India and the Punjab economy Pritam Singh
10	Human Development and Social Power Perspectives from South Asia Ananya Mukherjee Reed
11	The South Asian Diaspora Transnational networks and changing identities Edited by Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves
12	PakistanJapan Relations Continuity and change in economic relations and security interests Ahmad Rashid Malik
13	Himalayan Frontiers of India Historical, geo-political and strategic perspectives K. Warikoo
14	Indias Open-Economy Policy Globalism, rivalry, continuity Jalal Alamgir
15	The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy Asoka Bandarage
16	Indias Energy Security Edited by Ligia Noronha and Anant Sudarshan
17	Globalization and the Middle Classes in India The social and cultural impact of neoliberal reforms Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase
18	Water Policy Processes in India Discourses of power and resistance Vandana Asthana
19	Minority Governments in India The puzzle of elusive majorities Csaba Nikolenyi
20	The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal Revolution in the twenty-first century Edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Anup K. Pahari
21	Global Capital and Peripheral Labour The history and political economy of plantation workers in India K. Ravi Raman
22	Maoism in India Reincarnation of ultra-left wing extremism in the twenty-first century Bidyut Chakrabarty and Rajat Kujur
23	Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India Cronyism and fragility Debdas Banerjee
24	Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya Arjun Guneratne
25	The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal Democracy in the margins Susan I. Hangen
26	The Multiplex in India A cultural economy of urban leisure Adrian Athique and Douglas Hill
27	Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka Ethnic and regional dimensions Dennis B. McGilvray and Michele R. Gamburd
28	Development, Democracy and the State Critiquing the Kerala model of development K. Ravi Raman
29	Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan Violence and transformation in the Karachi conflict Nichola Khan
30	Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia Bina DCosta
31	The State in India after Liberalization Interdisciplinary perspectives Edited by Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan
32	National Identities in Pakistan The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction Cara Cilano
33	Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh Edited by Ali Riaz and C. Christine Fair
34	Bengali Cinema An other nation Sharmistha Gooptu

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