Contributed articles. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
I. Background. The structural basis of corruption in healthcare in India -- Socio-logic of corruption -- The commodification of India's healthcare services : public interest, policy, and costly choices -- Globalization and corruption in the health sector -- II. Corruption in practice. The role of the medical council in India -- Malpractice in medical education -- Corruption in everyday medical practice -- Hospital practices and healthcare corruption -- Ethical issues in organ transplantation -- The public sector and corruption in health services -- The unholy nexus : medical profession, pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory authorities -- People in small places don't face small problems -- Healthcare corruption and traditional medicine in India -- Healthcare corruption : a consumer view -- Corruption in medical research : clinical trials, research misconduct, journals, and their interplay -- Corruption in healthcare : a technology perspective -- III. Morals, politics, legal issues, and consequences. Degradation of our spiritual, ethical, and moral heritage : a personal perspective -- The moral pathology of healthcare corruption -- The consequences of corruption in healthcare -- Judicial and legislative response to healthcare -- Judicial and legislative responses to healthcare corruption -- IV. We are not alone. Global medical corruption : it is time for individuals to act where institutions have failed -- Bangladesh : great mysteries in global health masked in corruption -- Business corruption of personalities : the case of Sri Lanka -- Corruption in the healthcare systems in Pakistan -- V. Governance and healthcare corruption. Patient-centric healthcare : through institutional regulation -- Regulating healthcare establishments : the case of the Clinical Establishment Act, 2010 -- Can digital technology help curb healthcare corruption? -- Healthcare corruption : responses from people's health movements -- Evidence-based interventions for healthcare corruption -- VI. Personal views. My battle with medical corruption -- What should we do? -- Means and ends -- VII. Major scandals. The justice Lentin Commission of enquiry : a case study -- laying bare malaise and corruption in our health system -- Vyapam -- VIII. Beacons of hope. Developing a health and social care system for homeless people with mental illness : the banyan experience in Tami Nadu, India -- Christian medical college, Vellore -- Challenges to holding a candle against corruption -- Changing the paradigm : the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram -- Experience with health worker-based medical programmes -- In all honesty -- Palliative care shows the way to true health.
Summary:
"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. This 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. But Healers or Predators? is not only about the illness affecting the sector. It also offers solutions, and some stories of hope."--Provided by publisher.
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