Supriya Subramani

Passive Patient Culture in India (eBook, ePUB)

Disrespect in Law and Medicine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040335772
• Artikelnr.: 73648121

Autorenporträt

Supriya Subramani is Lecturer at Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She explores ethics, embodied emotions, and the politics of knowledge. Employing critical philosophical ethnography and a phenomenological approach, she critically examines structural injustice in health, disrespect and othering, the ethics of belonging, and the intersections of paternalism, respect, and agency.

Inhaltsangabe

Copyright Permissions and AcknowledgementsPreface
To the Many Whom I Thank!
Introduction: The Silent Struggle
Chapter 1: Situating Patienthood
Chapter 2: Rhetoric of Passive Patient in the Indian Legal Discourse
Chapter 3: Construction of Incompetent Patient
Chapter 4: Everyday Indignities: Institutionalising Passive Patienthood
Chapter 5: Towards Self-respect and Recognition in an Unequal World
Afterword- With Rage, Resistance and Hope: A Culture of Self-Respect
Appendix