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. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire health care sector, which over recent decades has transformed itself to a profit-making commodity.

The book explores the complexities of the health care services in Kolkata with special emphasis on the emergence, growth, role an...