LILA PRISM lecture "Health Culture as Continuity" a talk by Ritu Priya Mehrotra at Seminar Hall No. I & II, Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 11th December 2014
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LILA PRISM lecture "Health Culture as Continuity" a talk by Ritu Priya Mehrotra
Event Page : Seminar Hall No. I & II Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Venue : Seminar Hall No. I & II, Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : LILA PRISM lecture "Health Culture as Continuity" a talk by Ritu Priya Mehrotra.
Abstract :
Contemporary literature views health culture in three distinct ways. The earliest and most pervasive is the colonial anthropologists’ view, as the beliefs and ways of dealing with health problems of the primitive, under-developed communities that are resistant to change and whose ‘culture’ is therefore static. Secondly, the developmentalist’s view, as the behaviours and perceptions of lay people of any community or society, under-developed or developed, that change with access to technological development. And more comprehensively, holistic public health views health culture of any society as a complex of the forms of both expert and lay knowledge(s), institutions that diffuse the practice of that knowledge (such as hospitals/health centres/community health care providers/international health programmes), and ways of dealing with health dimensions beyond direct health care. This third comprehensive understanding of ‘health culture’ challenges us to explore the continuity and change manifest in the multiple knowledge systems and practices present in ‘pluralistic health care’ existing in contemporary India, and indeed in the world. This lecture attempts to trace the continuities and convergences in the multiple knowledge traditions existing simultaneously in the present, from the local folk traditions to the officially recognised textual traditional systems, to conventional ‘modern medicine’ and public health, and on to their advancing frontiers. Interspersed with disruptions and divergences, a non-linear progression of knowledge and practice is evident in the cultural continuities. It is up to us as a society to make sense of this complex plural health culture and celebrate the continuities and disruptions, the convergences and divergences, which contribute to health, happiness and wellbeing.
Ritu Priya Mehrotra, a medical graduate with a doctorate in Community Health, is currently Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU, New Delhi. Her work links epidemiology, popular culture, political economy and health systems analysis for developing an understanding of ‘health culture’ as well as drawing upon it for a contextually suited health systems development policy. It has been specifically focused on the politics of knowledge between healing systems and between experts and laypeople; health perceptions of dalits and other marginalised groups; urban health; nutrition and communicable diseases. She has been Advisor (Public Health Planning) with the National Health Systems Resource Centre under the National Rural Health Mission, and also been actively involved with the people’s health movement in the country for over three decades.
Savyasaachi, Head of the Department of Sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, will chair the lecture and moderate the discussion. His work has focused on the ecological and environmental dimensions of sociology and political economy.
Speaker : Smt Ritu Priya Mehrotra, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Medicine, JNU
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Seminar Hall No. I & II, Kamladevi Block, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : LILA PRISM lecture "Health Culture as Continuity" a talk by Ritu Priya Mehrotra.
Abstract :
Contemporary literature views health culture in three distinct ways. The earliest and most pervasive is the colonial anthropologists’ view, as the beliefs and ways of dealing with health problems of the primitive, under-developed communities that are resistant to change and whose ‘culture’ is therefore static. Secondly, the developmentalist’s view, as the behaviours and perceptions of lay people of any community or society, under-developed or developed, that change with access to technological development. And more comprehensively, holistic public health views health culture of any society as a complex of the forms of both expert and lay knowledge(s), institutions that diffuse the practice of that knowledge (such as hospitals/health centres/community health care providers/international health programmes), and ways of dealing with health dimensions beyond direct health care. This third comprehensive understanding of ‘health culture’ challenges us to explore the continuity and change manifest in the multiple knowledge systems and practices present in ‘pluralistic health care’ existing in contemporary India, and indeed in the world. This lecture attempts to trace the continuities and convergences in the multiple knowledge traditions existing simultaneously in the present, from the local folk traditions to the officially recognised textual traditional systems, to conventional ‘modern medicine’ and public health, and on to their advancing frontiers. Interspersed with disruptions and divergences, a non-linear progression of knowledge and practice is evident in the cultural continuities. It is up to us as a society to make sense of this complex plural health culture and celebrate the continuities and disruptions, the convergences and divergences, which contribute to health, happiness and wellbeing.
Ritu Priya Mehrotra, a medical graduate with a doctorate in Community Health, is currently Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU, New Delhi. Her work links epidemiology, popular culture, political economy and health systems analysis for developing an understanding of ‘health culture’ as well as drawing upon it for a contextually suited health systems development policy. It has been specifically focused on the politics of knowledge between healing systems and between experts and laypeople; health perceptions of dalits and other marginalised groups; urban health; nutrition and communicable diseases. She has been Advisor (Public Health Planning) with the National Health Systems Resource Centre under the National Rural Health Mission, and also been actively involved with the people’s health movement in the country for over three decades.
Savyasaachi, Head of the Department of Sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, will chair the lecture and moderate the discussion. His work has focused on the ecological and environmental dimensions of sociology and political economy.
Speaker : Smt Ritu Priya Mehrotra, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Medicine, JNU
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