Special Treatment - (South Asia in Motion) by Anna Ruddock (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The first ethnographic study of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, <i>Special Treatment</i> follows a group of students and explores how the institution's prestige is reproduced by powerful norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, class, and the role of medicine in society.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital rapidly gained fame for the high-quality treatment it offered at a nominal cost; at present, an average of ten thousand patients pass through the outpatient department each day. With its notorious medical program acceptance rate of less than 0.01%, AIIMS also sits at the apex of Indian medical education. To be trained as a doctor here is to be considered the best. </p> <p>In what way does this enduring reputation of excellence shape the institution's ethos? How does elite medical education sustain India's social hierarchies and the health inequalities entrenched within? In the first-ever ethnography of AIIMS, Anna Ruddock considers prestige as a byproduct of norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, and class in modern India, and illustrates how the institution's reputation affects its students' present experiences and future career choices. Ruddock untangles the threads of intellectual exceptionalism, social and power stratification, and health inequality that are woven into the health care taught and provided at AIIMS, asking what is lost when medicine is used not as a social equalizer but as a means to cultivate and maintain prestige.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Special Treatment</i> is a valuable, much-needed addition to the sparse body of ethnographic work on elite institutions of professional education. Anna Ruddock has crafted a sensitive and sympathetic--yet nuanced and critical--account of how the best-regarded doctors in the country are trained at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. This book overcomes the daunting difficulties of studying a powerful 'institution of excellence' and illuminates its functioning without descending into hagiography.--Satish Deshpande "Delhi University"<br><br>Who is medical education really for? What do medical schools actually teach? This quietly devastating study of India's 'best' medical school, and the 'best' students who attend it, reveals how good intentions and entrenched ideas about value and merit combine to produce fragmented, expensive, ill-distributed and disrespectfully delivered medical care. <i>Special Treatment</i> illuminates troubling patterns that extend well beyond contemporary India.--Claire Wendland "University of Wisconsin-Madison"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Anna Ruddock</b> is a medical anthropologist, writer, and disability activist.
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