Overview
The first book to study the development of innovative ophthalmological science, and technology and social entrepreneurship in South Asia, and its circulation throughout the Global South
Uses multi-sited, empirical data from four eye hospitals (in India, Nepal, Kenya and Mexico)
Offers a feminist postcolonial multi-level perspective analysis by pairing an explicit attention to the imposition of power through modes of science and technology circulation with new insights into the multi-level perspective on socio-technical system change
Advances theoretical understanding of innovation 'from below', science and technology circulation and appropriate technology choice in a global field of science—ophthalmology
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This feminist postcolonial global ethnography illustrates how these innovations have resulted in dual socio-technical systems to solve the problem of avoidable blindness. Policymakers and activists might use this example of how to avoid Schumacher's critique of low labor, large scale and implement Gandhi's philosophy of good for all.
Reviews
“It is fascinating to read this story of pioneering innovation in low-cost, high-volume cataract surgery in the Global South, starting with the Aravind Eye Care System in India and then the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Nepal. And about the systemic approach, for example, including a “Robin Hood” business model. Thus, it also illuminates how alternative approaches to innovation are viable, provided the entrepreneurs take the full context into account.” (Arie Rip, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands)
“Williams’ account of “innovation from below”, here from Nepal and India to elsewhere around the globe, and in the field of ophthalmology’s cataract surgeries, is both startling and exciting. Good-bye to the imperial West-to-Rest dissemination model. Welcome to more useful strategies for charting diverse cross-national appropriations, co-optations, resistances, negotiations, and progressive transformations. A must-read for understanding today’s science and technology transitions.” (Sandra Harding, Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Education and Gender Studies, University of California Los Angeles, USA)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eradicating Blindness
Book Subtitle: Global Health Innovation from South Asia
Authors: Logan D. A. Williams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1625-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1624-1Published: 03 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4656-9Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1625-8Published: 20 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 369
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology