Passive Patient Culture in India

This book critiques the archetype of the "passive patient" entrenched in both medicine and law in India-an image that undermines agency, diminishes self-respect, and sustains a culture of disrespect.

Supriya Subramani is Lecturer at Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She explores ethics, embodied emotions, and the politics of knowledge. Employing critical philosophical ethnography and a phenomenological approach, she critically examines structural injustice in health, disrespect and othering, the ethics of belonging, and the intersections of paternalism, respect, and agency.

Copyright Permissions and AcknowledgementsPreface To the Many Whom I Thank! Introduction: The Silent Struggle Chapter 1: Situating Patienthood Chapter 2: Rhetoric of Passive Patient in the Indian Legal Discourse Chapter 3: Construction of Incompetent Patient Chapter 4: Everyday Indignities: Institutionalising Passive Patienthood Chapter 5: Towards Self-respect and Recognition in an Unequal World Afterword- With Rage, Resistance and Hope: A Culture of Self-Respect Appendix