Eradicating Blindness: Global Health Innovation from South Asia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811316241)

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Origins of an Autonomous Global Network to Eradicate Blindness.- 3. Balancing the Scales: Appropriate Technology and Social Entrepreneurship.- 4. Witnessing Rural Blindness: Standardizing Benchmarks from Eye Camps.- 5. A Lab of Our Own: Technology Diffusion from Incumbent Regime.- 6. The Hard Case Of White Cataracts: Appropriation of Surgical Science.- 7. Training The New Cadre: Translation of Interlocking Innovations.- 8. Evidence-Based Medicine: Contesting the Phaco-Regime.- 9. Conclusion: Innovation from Below.- 10. Appendix A: The Extended Case Method and Global Ethnography.- 11 Appendix B: The Robin Hood Model.- Organizational Charts for Four Community Ophthalmology Units.- Glossary of Common Ophthalmology Surgical Terms.- Index.


Author: Logan D. a. Williams
ISBN-10: 9811316244
ISBN-13: 9789811316241
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2018
Pages: 369
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d