Hodges, Sarah (2013) Medical garbage and the making of neoliberalism in India. Economic & Political Weekly, Volume XLVIII (Number 48). ISSN 0012-9976.

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Abstract

In the 1980s, as plastic pervaded daily life in the Indian household, so too did it saturate everyday healthcare. Following these developments, alongside other post-liberalisation regulatory reforms, in 1998 the central government published its biomedical waste (management and handling) rules. In Chennai, the implementation of the rules has simultaneously, if inadvertently, consolidated and intensified the commoditisation of biomedical waste. This paper argues that this traffic in medical garbage is not a product of neo-liberalism in India. Instead, it is through innumerable stories like this that the "Indian neo-liberal" gains meaning.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title:	Economic & Political Weekly
Publisher:	E P W Research Foundation
ISSN:	0012-9976
Official Date:	30 November 2013
Dates:	Date Event 30 November 2013 Issued
Volume:	Volume XLVIII
Number:	Number 48
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published

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