The first ethnographic study of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Special Treatment follows a group of students and explores how the institution's prestige is reproduced by powerful norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, class, and the role of medicine in society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. AIIMS is AIIMS
2. The Beginning: Establishing AIIMS
3. Getting In: Being the Best
4. Being In: "Freedom"
5. Ways and Means of Learning: Impressions from the Clinic
6. Graduation: The Consequences of Excellence
7. Appendix: On Methodology
