Alondra Nelson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676484
- eISBN:
- 9781452948164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676484.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter describes the Black Panther Party’s health clinics that became bases of operation for the sickle cell anemia campaign. It details the Black Panther’s efforts to highlight the problem of ...
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This chapter describes the Black Panther Party’s health clinics that became bases of operation for the sickle cell anemia campaign. It details the Black Panther’s efforts to highlight the problem of sickle cell anemia, which is an incurable and fatal genetic disease that depletes the red blood cell’s ability to circulate oxygen through the body. The sickle cell anemia campaign, launched in 1971, was both a practical and ideological response to the deliberate and malicious neglect of African American citizens by the healthcare state. The Black Panther established their own genetic screening programs, initiated health education outreach, and disseminated information about the disease to black communities through the newspaper Black Panther and other media outlets.Less
This chapter describes the Black Panther Party’s health clinics that became bases of operation for the sickle cell anemia campaign. It details the Black Panther’s efforts to highlight the problem of sickle cell anemia, which is an incurable and fatal genetic disease that depletes the red blood cell’s ability to circulate oxygen through the body. The sickle cell anemia campaign, launched in 1971, was both a practical and ideological response to the deliberate and malicious neglect of African American citizens by the healthcare state. The Black Panther established their own genetic screening programs, initiated health education outreach, and disseminated information about the disease to black communities through the newspaper Black Panther and other media outlets.
K. Kannan
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198082880
- eISBN:
- 9780199082827
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198082880.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Medical Law
This book analyses various issues concerning the application of law to the field of medical practice, education, and research from a global perspective with particular focus on India. The volume, ...
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This book analyses various issues concerning the application of law to the field of medical practice, education, and research from a global perspective with particular focus on India. The volume, analytical in approach and comprehensive in coverage, ought to evoke vital public interest in that it examines technological advancements in the medical field that have legal, social, and ethical implications. The issues, including organ transplant, euthanasia, surrogacy and abortion, sex selection, the concept of consent, clinical trials, designer babies, cosmetic enhancement and confidentiality, are common to all countries but vary in their moral perception due to the diverse cultural underpinnings of each country. The author adopts an interdisciplinary approach combining law with medicine to address these issues. This book is also a comparative study with a special focus on Indian case law and jurisdictions from other countries including the US and the UK. Open ended, yet objective, written by a sitting judge of Punjab & Haryana High Court, the book does not fail to capture the inadequacies and improper approaches in the arena of legal regulation of medical education and medical practice. The book holds the key to informed public debates on issues of critical importance by providing deep insights into concepts like reservation and the constitutional goal of social justice, respect for patient autonomy, and setting the frontiers of ethical practice, policy initiatives for affordable healthcare and use of technology to assure good quality of treatment to the rural milieu as well.Less
This book analyses various issues concerning the application of law to the field of medical practice, education, and research from a global perspective with particular focus on India. The volume, analytical in approach and comprehensive in coverage, ought to evoke vital public interest in that it examines technological advancements in the medical field that have legal, social, and ethical implications. The issues, including organ transplant, euthanasia, surrogacy and abortion, sex selection, the concept of consent, clinical trials, designer babies, cosmetic enhancement and confidentiality, are common to all countries but vary in their moral perception due to the diverse cultural underpinnings of each country. The author adopts an interdisciplinary approach combining law with medicine to address these issues. This book is also a comparative study with a special focus on Indian case law and jurisdictions from other countries including the US and the UK. Open ended, yet objective, written by a sitting judge of Punjab & Haryana High Court, the book does not fail to capture the inadequacies and improper approaches in the arena of legal regulation of medical education and medical practice. The book holds the key to informed public debates on issues of critical importance by providing deep insights into concepts like reservation and the constitutional goal of social justice, respect for patient autonomy, and setting the frontiers of ethical practice, policy initiatives for affordable healthcare and use of technology to assure good quality of treatment to the rural milieu as well.
Sienna R. Craig
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273238
- eISBN:
- 9780520951587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273238.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
Chapter 2 presents a very different world of Tibetan medicine, operating in an urban Chinese context, within distinct governance structures and possibilities for efficacious practice. This chapter ...
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Chapter 2 presents a very different world of Tibetan medicine, operating in an urban Chinese context, within distinct governance structures and possibilities for efficacious practice. This chapter takes place at the Arura Group, a major Tibetan medical institution in Qinghai Province, China. Located in central Xining, Qinghai’s capital, Arura’s hospital serves a large and diverse patient base. In addition to clinical practice, Arura also runs a research institution, a Tibetan pharmaceutical factory, and a major cultural museum; Arura also supports the Tibetan Medical College within Qinghai’s medical school. In contrast with the single individuals fulfilling multiple social roles described in chapter 1, in chapter 2 one moves between departments within Arura, revealing distinct domains of expertise and professional jurisdiction. One witnesses translations across medical systems—Tibetan medicine, Chinese medicine, biomedicine—as well as a certain level of standardization of practice and greater economic investments in Tibetan medicine here than in a rural community in the Nepal Himalaya. Chapter 2 illustrates multiple levels of engagement between Tibetan medicine, the biomedical sciences, and commercial pharmaceutical production.Less
Chapter 2 presents a very different world of Tibetan medicine, operating in an urban Chinese context, within distinct governance structures and possibilities for efficacious practice. This chapter takes place at the Arura Group, a major Tibetan medical institution in Qinghai Province, China. Located in central Xining, Qinghai’s capital, Arura’s hospital serves a large and diverse patient base. In addition to clinical practice, Arura also runs a research institution, a Tibetan pharmaceutical factory, and a major cultural museum; Arura also supports the Tibetan Medical College within Qinghai’s medical school. In contrast with the single individuals fulfilling multiple social roles described in chapter 1, in chapter 2 one moves between departments within Arura, revealing distinct domains of expertise and professional jurisdiction. One witnesses translations across medical systems—Tibetan medicine, Chinese medicine, biomedicine—as well as a certain level of standardization of practice and greater economic investments in Tibetan medicine here than in a rural community in the Nepal Himalaya. Chapter 2 illustrates multiple levels of engagement between Tibetan medicine, the biomedical sciences, and commercial pharmaceutical production.
