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Public Health and Private Wealth : Stem Cells, Surrogates, and Other Strategic Bodies, Hardback Book

Public Health and Private Wealth : Stem Cells, Surrogates, and Other Strategic Bodies Hardback

Edited by Sarah (, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick) Hodges, Mohan (, Professor, the Centre of Social Medicine, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Rao

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Poverty whether as drain theory at the start of the twentieth century or through garibi hatao towards the end of those 100 yearswas the predominant economic, political, and social paradigm within which late colonial, nationalist and post-independence era science policy was constructed.

Whether as critics of Indias poverty, or as architects of measures for its eradication, Indias commentators called on a broad framework of science both to diagnose and treat poverty.

Yet, when we think of science in India today, this earlier priority of poverty eradication is now hard to find.

Poverty eradication as a goal in itself seems to have fallen off Indias scientific agenda almost entirely.

What accounts for this? This volume asks: Has the problem of poverty in India been solved? Or, has it become inconvenient alongside the rise of new narratives that frame India as a site of remarkable economic growth?

Indeed, has there been a loss of faith in the ability of science to tackle poverty?

Together, the essays in this volume explore the broader implications for the new role of science in India: as a driver of economic growth for India, rather than as a solution to the persistence of poverty.

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