Passive Patient Culture in India - Disrespect in Law and Medicine

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Supriya Subramani, Supriya (Postdoctoral Fellow (Eskas Sch Subramani, Supriya (University of Sydney) Subramani
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2025
• EAN: 9780367655365
• ISBN: 978-0-367-65536-5
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Research in Health Law
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Asia, MEDICAL / Ethics, LAW / General, LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, International Law, Ethics & moral philosophy, Regional Studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, Regional / International studies, Medical & healthcare law, Health systems & services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Public ownership / nationalization, Health systems and services, Medical and healthcare law