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Broken limbs, broken lives: Ethnography of a hospital ward in Bangladesh

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Authors
  • S. Zaman
Supervisors
  • J.D.M. van der Geest ORCID logo
  • P.H. Streefland
Award date 23-06-2003
Number of pages 240
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Document type PhD thesis
Note Research conducted at: ASSR
Language English
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Table of Contents
Summary
Samenvatting
Acknowledgements
Chapter I INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE
Chapter II THE ETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter III BANGLADESH: A LAND OF HOPE AND DESPAIR
Chapter IV RESEARCH SETTING: THE HOSPITAL
Chapter V PATIENTS: LOST IN THE LABYRINTH
Chapter VI RELATIVES: SILENT SAVIOURS
Chapter VII WARD BOYS, CLEANERS AND GATEKEEPERS: INFLUENTIAL INFERIORS
Chapter VIII NURSES: LADIES WITHOUT LAMPS
Chapter IX DOCTORS: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Chapter X THE HOSPITAL: MIRROR OF SOCIETY
Chapter XI CONCLUSION: BROKEN LIMBS, BROKEN LIVES
EPILOGUE
Glossary of local terms:
List of abbreviations
REFERENCES
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