Titlebook: Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh; Md. Faruk Shah Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under ex

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A Place of Avoidance and Belongingcal companies do not adhere to the regulations in regard to bioethics and drug ordinance and produce the substandard medicine that is sold mainly in the rural areas of the country. Against the backdrop, this chapter aims to explore the marketing and sales strategies of companies and the way in which

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Landscapes of Difficult Heritage relation to reproductive health and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh. I examine how gender inequality is embedded in family planning, at both state and domestic levels. What are the contradictions between population control strategies and women’s reproductive health as practised in rural Bangl

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The Temporalities of Gazimestandge required for understanding the multiple forms of biomedicine at the various levels of the healthcare system that exist in rural Bangladesh of which: localization, corruption, commodification, commercialization, contested identities and, importantly, heterogeneous practices, all seem to be an int

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Introduction,ly focuses on the meaning and characteristics of biomedicine, the relationship between biomedicine and modernity, and the biomedical systems of care in rural Bangladesh. Although biomedicine originated in the West, it has been a global institution at the leading edge of modernity in terms of its pra

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The Public Health Care Bureaucracy: Narratives from Rural Clinics,ting power relations, kin networks, social hierarchy and gendered relations. I describe how the local form of bureaucracy (and modernity) has deepened the existing social inequality, especially the disparity in health. I address the reasons why and how both bureaucrats (care providers) and non-burea

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Public Health Care Centres: Policies and Practice,e services in order to examine their effects in rural Bangladesh. I examine how rural people struggle for access to biomedicine because of the absenteeism of the service providers, uncertainty, informal payments, favouritism, the illegal selling of pharmaceuticals, and, more importantly, a politiciz

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Private Health Care, Quality and Corruption,ence in seeking health care from these private health care providers. It also concerns the professional qualifications of care providers, unnecessary medical tests, unethical drug promotion, the rights of the individual as patient and the conflicts of interest of health officials which are found in

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,Biomedicine and Modernity: The Case of the “Village Doctors”,h in rural Bangladesh. Rural people depend much on these village doctors for their advice and services related to health and healing. This is mainly due to their easy availability, accessibility and affordability as compared to public health care service. However, the popular image of the VDs encour

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