Eradicating Blindness: Global Health Innovation from South Asia

By Logan D. A. Williams

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Origins of an Autonomous Global Network to Eradicate Blindness.- 3. Balancing the Scales: Appropriate Technology and Social Entrepreneurship.- 4. Witnessing Rural Blindness: Standardizing Benchmarks from Eye Camps.- 5. A Lab of Our Own: Technology Diffusion from Incumbent Regime.- 6. The Hard Case Of White Cataracts: Appropriation of Surgical Science.- 7. Training The New Cadre: Translation of Interlocking Innovations.- 8. Evidence-Based Medicine: Contesting the Phaco-Regime.- 9. Conclusion: Innovation from Below.- 10. Appendix A: The Extended Case Method and Global Ethnography.- 11 Appendix B: The Robin Hood Model.- Organizational Charts for Four Community Ophthalmology Units.- Glossary of Common Ophthalmology Surgical Terms.- Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811316244
• ISBN13: 9789811316241
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"