{"product_id":"healers-or-predators-samiran-nundy-9780199489541","title":"Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India","description":"For every story of optimism about the growth of medical tourism to India, there are multiple others about medical neglect. Scratch the surface and you find a thick layer of corruption in this life-sustaining sector. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis hard-hitting volume shows a mirror to the society and, more specifically, to those associated with the health sector---on how healers, in many cases, are shifting shape to becoming predators. In the essays by contributors from within and outside the medical fraternity, we see the many faces, the many facets of corruption---from exorbitant billing by corporate hospitals to the non-merit-based selection in medical colleges to the questionable motives playing strong in the area of organ transplantation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut \u003cem\u003eHealers or Predators?\u003c\/em\u003e is not only about the illness affecting the sector. It also offers solutions, and some stories of hope. The Foreword by Amartya Sen is an added bonus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samiran Nundy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199489548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199489541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 2.20d","brand":"Samiran Nundy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054716219647,"sku":"9780199489541","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55b7536c-d93a-4b90-a96f-d08b6d485950.jpg?v=1685031574","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/healers-or-predators-samiran-nundy-9780199489541","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}