Readings in Indian Sociology

Series Note
Foreword - Yogendra Singh
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction - Madhu Nagla
Sociological Inroads into Medicine: A Tribute to Aneeta A. Minocha (1943-2007) - Ruby Bhardwaj
Food: The Immanent Cause from Outside - Medical Lore on Food and Health in Village Tamil Nadu - V Sujatha
State Sponsored Health Care in Rural Uttar Pradesh: Grassroots Encounters of a Survey Researcher - Rajiv Balakrishnan
Gram Panchayat and Health Care Delivery in Himachal Pradesh - Sthitapragyan Ray
Occupational Attitudes of Physicians - Dr A Ramanamma and Usha Bambawale
The System of Hope: The Constitution of Identity in Medical Institutions - Roma Chatterji
Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction - Matthew George
Narratives of Sickness and Suffering: A Study of Malaria in South Gujarat - Purendra Prasad
Caste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women: A Study of Three Eastern States - Papia Raj and Aditya Raj
Informal Social Netwroks, Sonography and Female Foeticide in India - Tulsi Patel
Perception and Work Ethos of Medical Experts Dealing with Infertile Couples: A Study in Medical Sociology - Bela Kothari
`Correcting’ the Reproductive `Impairment’: Infertility Treatment Seeking Experiences of Low Income Group Women in Mumbai Slums - Meghana Joshi
Risk Culture, Propertied Classes, and Dynamics of a Region: A Study of HIV/AIDS in East Godavari District (Andhra Pradesh) - Asima Jena and N Purendra Prasad
Addressing the Rights of HIV-Positive Women: A Comparative Study of Civil Society Activism in Karnataka and West Bengal - Skylab Sahu
Prison Inmate Awareness of HIV and AIDS in Durban, South Africa - Hanta Singh
Medicalisation of Mental Disorder: Shifting Epistemologies and Beyond - Tina Chakravarty
Freedom in the Imperial Imagination: Mental Asylums Ideology and Political Economy in Colonial India - Parthsarathi Mondal
A Sociology for Happiness: Beyond Western Versus non-Western Perspectives - Kenji Kosaka
Social Change in The Caste Hindu Family and its Possible Impact on Personality and Mental Health - A A Khatri
`Indigenisation’ not `Indianisation’ of Psychiatry: An Anthropological Perspective - Renu Addlakha
Index
Appendix of Sources