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Special Treatment - Student Doctors At the All India Institute of Medical Sciences

English · Hardback

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The first ethnographic study of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Special Treatment follows a group of students and explores how the institution's prestige is reproduced by powerful norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, class, and the role of medicine in society.

List of contents










1. AIIMS is AIIMS

2. The Beginning: Establishing AIIMS

3. Getting In: Being the Best

4. Being In: "Freedom"

5. Ways and Means of Learning: Impressions from the Clinic

6. Graduation: The Consequences of Excellence

7. Appendix: On Methodology


About the author










Anna Ruddock is a medical anthropologist, writer, and disability activist.

Summary

The first ethnographic study of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Special Treatment follows a group of students and explores how the institution's prestige is reproduced by powerful norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, class, and the role of medicine in society.

Product details

Authors Anna Ruddock
Publisher Stanford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2021
 
EAN 9781503614925
ISBN 978-1-5036-1492-5
No. of pages 296
Series South Asia in Motion
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research

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