Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services

This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective- for academics in the field of medical sociology, history of medicine and health and development studies and South Asian Studies.

Amrita Bagchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Bethune College, India.