A Medical Doctor Examines Life on Three Continents

Author: S. Akhtar Ehtisham  

Publisher: Algora Publishing‎

Publication year: 2008

E-ISBN: 9780875866352

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780875866338

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780875866345

Subject: D5 World Politics;K3 Asian History

Keyword: 世界政治,亚洲史

Language: ENG

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A Medical Doctor Examines Life on Three Continents

Description

This sweeping narrative sketches the political and economic realities of the past fifty years while tracing an eventful life from the turmoil following the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan to the present day. Discussing politics, government policies, and popular movements, Dr. Ehtisham shows how nations as well as individual lives are shaped by historical events, economic changes, religious fundamentalism, class systems and racial divides. Through his own experience as a doctor and hospital director, he compares the advanced social safety net state of the post-war UK with regimes that are determined to see people "stand on their own two feet" — even when the economic system has already cut them off at the knees.

Chapter

Chapter 3. Negotiations for Transfer of Power and Partition

Chapter 4. Early Post-Partition: Divergent Paths

Chapter 5. Education and Socio-Economic Conditions in Pakistan-1951 to 1957

Sandeman High School, Quetta, 1951–1952

Government College, Quetta 1952–1954 

University of Karachi: 1954–1957

Chapter 6. Nehru and Ayub Years

India Under Nehru

Ayub — Middle to Final Years

Chapter 7. Medical Education and Surgical Training: 1957–1972

Chapter 8. Student Movement in Pakistan

The Struggle of Bengali Students

Overview of the Student Movement

Chapter 9. Decline and Fall of Ayub

BD Civil War

Bhutto Takes Over — Post BD

Chapter 10. Health Service and Society in North America, 1973 –2007

Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada) 1973–1974

Brooklyn 1974–1980 

Bath, New York 1980–83

Back to Bath 1991–2001 

Back to Bath, 2003

Chapter 11. The Rise of Fundamentalism

In Pakistan

Taliban

Pakistan 1983–1991

Observations on Health, Educational Systems and Societal Corruption

Hospital Project

Professional Work and Life in Pakistan.

Visits to Quetta

Chapter 12. Hospital Management

Handicapped Children, Nuclear Disarmament: Contrast with Conditions in India

Pakistan Orthopedic Association

International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War — The Delhi Conference

Stockholm

Chapter 13. BB–NS Musical Chairs

Musharraf and Altaf

Musharraf of Pakistan

Chapter 14. America the Beautiful

Chapter 15. UK 2001–2002

Health Care and Social Conditions Compared with 1965–1972

Chapter 16. Colonization to Globalization

A Review of Metamorphosis

Bibliography

Glossary

Acknowledgments

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