By Salmaan Keshavjee
A shiny representation of the infiltration of neoliberal ideology into the layout and implementation of improvement courses, this example examine, set in post-Soviet Tajikistan’s distant japanese province of Badakhshan, attracts on vast ethnographic and ancient fabric to check a revolving drug fund” programused by means of a variety of nongovernmental companies globally to handle shortages of high quality prescribed drugs in terrible communities. Provocative, rigorous, and available, Blind Spot bargains a cautionary story concerning the forces using determination making in wellbeing and fitness and improvement coverage this day, illustrating how the privatization of health and wellbeing care may have catastrophic results for the various world’s so much susceptible populations.
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The study has a psychological depth (and reflexiveness) associated with his Harvard mentor, Arthur Kleinman, even as it brings to mind the work of fellow anthropologist James Ferguson and of sociologists like C. Wright Mills and Pierre Bourdieu. It’s easy, especially looking back almost two decades later, to deride some development efforts as ineffectual or wasteful or cruel or ineffective or costly. Such derision is easy enough. It’s less easy, but not for lack of information, to parse carefully the reasons for failure (or success).
In Khorog, Mamadamin Mamadaminov and Yodgor Faisov helped arrange logistical support, and Peter, Nukhra, Dilawar, Mahmood, Natasha, Svetlana, Firuz, and many others at the Aga Khan Development Network offices were always most helpful. Banoz and Gulbargh used to bake little treats for me when I came back from the villages, and I shall not forget them for that. Special thanks are given to the following people for their assistance in conducting the surveys that guided this work: Khurshed Konunov, Kolya Konunov, Gulomsho Lutfaliev, the field staff for the Pharmaceutical Use Survey, Mansur Shakarmamadov and Farrukh Shakarmamadov for work on the Dental Survey, all the translators who worked on the long-answer surveys, the computer team at the Aga Khan Development Network for helping with data entry, and the many others, too numerous to mention here, who helped me.
Take the example of a young Tajik dentist, Misha, who meets Keshavjee while seeking funding from an international nongovernmental organization in the hope of sparing some of his patients—the destitute, children, aging veterans, and others once protected, however feebly, by the Soviet health system—the closed-door fate that awaits them. The organization is one of several that have come to Tajikistan to address a humanitarian crisis provoked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, which triggered war and strife and privation.