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

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