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Tag Archives: Health

Health


Kavery Nambisan
A LUXURY CALLED HEALTH: A DOCTOR’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE ART, THE SCIENCE AND THE TRICKERY OF MEDICINE
2021

The author is a truly amazing doctor, a surgeon, and a writer of fiction. But many doctors write fiction, the most famous of course being Chekov, who I just discovered was not Russian, but Ukrainian, like Tchaikovsky. But unlike Chekov and most clinicians like Oliver Sacks, who mine their case histories for stories, Kavery Nambisan has a deep appreciation of the need for public health.


Reviewed by: Mohan Rao

Panchali Ray
POLITICS OF PRECARITY: GENDERED SUBJECTS AND THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY IN CONTEMPORARY KOLKATA
2020

The pandemic of Covid is here to stay and we have to learn to live with it, as it becomes endemic. Among the many things the Covid pandemic has exposed—the neglect of public health, the disastrous implications of privatization of health, the utter lack of public health.


Reviewed by: Mohan Rao
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