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Modern Medicine and International Aid: Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998
Susan Heydon
Price
1890.00
ISBN
9788125036975
Language
English
Pages
380
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2009
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

In 1966 New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, “hero” of Everest, built a small hospital for the celebrated Sherpas of Himalayan mountaineering. Throughout much of the world foreign aid and health care became deeply entwined during the second half of the twentieth century. Despite all the money that was spent, and all the reports and literature about aid and development, however, remarkably little is known about the implementation of projects or why health programmes may not be as successful as planned.

Set in the rugged, remote and high-altitude environment near the world’s highest mountain, this history of Khunde Hospital provides a detailed case study about both an ongoing encounter between Sherpas’ beliefs and practices about sickness and their use of “modern” medicine, and the implementation of an aid project that is situated against a background of changing ideas and practices in international aid.

Students of development studies, international health, medical history and anthropology will find this book not only engaging but rich in field-work data.

Susan Heydon is Lecturer in Social Pharmacy at the University of Otago. Between 1996 and 1998 she was a volunteer with her family for the Himalayan Trust at Khunde Hospital. Her ongoing research interests focus on issues surrounding the implementation of health policies and programmes. Her new research will focus on the use of medicines.

Illustrations and Maps
Acknowledgements
Notes on Orthography and Terminology
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Khunde Hospital, Sir Edmund Hillary and Giving Aid
2. Khunde Hospital and the Sherpa of Khumbu
3. Khunde Hospital as a Western medicine project
4. Khunde Hospital as and Aid Project
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Overseas Volunteers as Khunde Hospital
Appendix 2: Nepalese Staff at Khunde Hospital
Appendix 3: Outpatients at Khunde Hospital
Appendix 4: Population of Khumbu
Appendix 5: Visitors to Khumbu/Sagarmatha National Park
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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