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Medical garbage and the making of neoliberalism in India
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Hodges, Sarah (2013) Medical garbage and the making of neoliberalism in India. Economic & Political Weekly, Volume XLVIII (Number 48).
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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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume XLVIII | ||||
| Number: | Number 48 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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