Special treatment : student doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences / Anna Ruddock.
Material type: TextSeries: South Asia in motionPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781503628267
- 1503628264
- All-India Institute of Medical Sciences
- All-India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Medical education -- India
- Teaching hospitals -- India
- Occupational prestige -- India
- Social medicine -- India
- Enseignement médical -- Inde
- Hôpitaux d'enseignement -- Inde
- Prestige professionnel -- Inde
- Medical education
- Occupational prestige
- Social medicine
- Teaching hospitals
- India
- 610.71/154 23
- R814.A84 R83 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"AIIMS is AIIMS" -- The beginning : establishing AIIMS -- Getting in : being the best -- Being in : "freedom" -- Ways and means of learning : impressions from the clinic -- Graduation : the consequences of excellence.
"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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