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Modern Medicine and International Aid: Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966-1998

by Susan Heydon
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788125036975
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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  • Pages: 380
  • Original Price: INR 1990.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 581 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

In 1966 New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, “hero” of Everest, built a small hospital for the celebrated Sherpas of Himalayan mountaineering. Throughout much of the world foreign aid and health care became deeply entwined during the second half of the twentieth century. Despite all the money that was spent, and all the reports and literature about aid and development, however, remarkably little is known about the implementation of projects or why health programmes may not be as successful as planned.

Set in the rugged, remote and high-altitude environment near the world’s highest mountain, this history of Khunde Hospital provides a detailed case study about both an ongoing encounter between Sherpas’ beliefs and practices about sickness and their use of “modern” medicine, and the implementation of an aid project that is situated against a background of changing ideas and practices in international aid.

Students of development studies, international health, medical history and anthropology will find this book not only engaging but rich in field-work data.

Susan Heydon is Lecturer in Social Pharmacy at the University of Otago. Between 1996 and 1998 she was a volunteer with her family for the Himalayan Trust at Khunde Hospital. Her ongoing research interests focus on issues surrounding the implementation of health policies and programmes. Her new research will focus on the use of medicines.

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