(Ebook) Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services by Amrita Bagchi ISBN 9780367762964, 9780367770327, 9781003169475, 036776296X, 0367770326, 1003169473

(Ebook) Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services by Amrita Bagchi ISBN 9780367762964, 9780367770327, 9781003169475, 036776296X, 0367770326, 1003169473

This book analyzes the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire healthcare sector, which over recent decades has transformed itself into a profit-making commodity.The book explores the complexities of the healthcare services in Kolkata with special emphasis on the emergence, growth, role and the changing pattern of private healthcare organizations and the decline or degeneration of the services of public hospitals. Post-1947 India experienced the implementation of new developments in public health services, amongst other vertical programmes, primary health centres, family planning welfare programmes and community health volunteers. Examining the challenges in establishing a comprehensive health service system and the process of market forces in healthcare, the author investigates its linkages with policies of the welfare state.This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of medical sociology, history of medicine, health and development studies, and South Asian studies.