Healers or Predators? : Healthcare Corruption in India / edited by Samiran Nundy, Keshav Desiraju, Sanjay Nagral ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.

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.

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