Eradicating Blindness Global Health Innovation from South Asia /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Williams, Logan D. A. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Social medicine.; Medical anthropology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Medical Sociology.; Medical Anthropology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.