Roger Jeffery
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 205502 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Roger Jeffery |
| NOMBRES | Roger |
| APELLIDO | Jeffery |
| FIRMA | JEFFERY R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1702-7253 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 438 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
The historical sociology of medicine in India
This introduction to a special section brings together three papers first presented at a panel, 'Medical Professions in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Analyses', at the 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies, held in Vienna, Austria and online, in July 2021. All three papers deal with aspects of the professionalisation of biomedical doctors in India since its independence in 1947. The authors bring together historical and sociol…
Current challenges for doctors in India
Western-trained doctors in India struggled to establish themselves as a medical 'profession' in the 1920s and 1930s and these struggles continued into the post-colonial period. The direction of travel is, however, no longer clear. Increasing evidence of a crisis in doctors' collective ability to provide a form of self-regulation since 2000 is highlighted. India's Supreme Court suspended the operations of their country's medical councils in the fa…
Policies to combat nitrogen pollution in South Asia
Assessing and managing nitrogen sustainably is imperative for achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targeted for 2030. South Asian countries, aware of the environmental and health impacts of nitrogen pollution, regionally as well as globally, piloted the 2019 UN resolution on sustainable nitrogen management, calling for urgent policy action. This paper assists South Asia policy development by providing new insights into nitroge…
Becoming a Mother During Covid-19
Based on online semi-structured interviews with middle-class women who were pregnant or had recently given birth in Western Europe (France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland), this study analyses how motherhood has been experienced and performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article reflects on the specific new risk assessments and responsibilities that emerged during the pandemic by showing women's coping strategies concerning lockd…
‘The time where the British took the lead is over’
Writing reflects some of the different characteristics of the language being used and of the people who are communicating. The present paper focusses on the internal written communication in international and inter-disciplinary research projects. Using a case study of an international public health research project, it argues that the authorship and the languages used in internal project communication are not neutral but help to generate or reinf…
Childbirth in South Asia
This book illustrates the continuing challenges as well as the new paradoxes linked to childbirth in South Asia. It brings together anthropologists and sociologists working in different contexts (at the hospital, within the community) and in a variety of settings (rural, urban) in India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. While women in Western countries have pressed for more home deliveries, and for the mitigation of some of the effects of the mal…
From South Asia to the world
Health policy and federalism in India
This paper addresses the question of how the position of Indian states in terms of their approach to welfare state policies interacts with the centre–state relationships that characterize health policymaking. In India’s version of federalism, health policymaking has been influenced by four mutually interacting sources: international public health discourses; Indian government programmes and policies; civil society organizations concerned with hea…
The Scottish Experience in Asia
How Civil Society Organisations Changed the Regulation of Clinical Trials in India
In 2005 India changed its pharmaceutical and innovation policy that facilitated a dramatic increase in international clinical trials involving study sites in India. This policy shift was surrounded by controversies; civil society organisations (CSOs) criticised the Indian government for promoting the commercialisation of pharmaceutical research and development. Health social movements in India fought for social justice through collective action, …
Community perceptions of health and chronic disease in South Indian rural transitional communities
BACKGROUND: Chronic diseases are now the leading cause of death and disability worldwide; this epidemic has been linked to rapid economic growth and urbanisation in developing countries. Understanding how characteristics of the physical, social, and economic environment affect behaviour in the light of these changes is key to identifying successful interventions to mitigate chronic disease risk. DESIGN: We undertook a qualitative study consisting…
Big-pharmaceuticalisation
Authorship in multi-disciplinary, multi-national North-South research projects
The challenges of ensuring equity among partners of very different academic power and status, across continents, within complex research projects involving differing disciplines with their own norms, and balancing needs for capacity development of individuals and for institutions can be major sources of conflicts. While each of these concerns has been addressed separately, the implications of situations where they reinforce each other have not. D…
Girls' schooling and transition to marriage and motherhood
Enhanced young women's reproductive agency could contribute to much-needed improvements in reproductive and child health in Pakistan. The RECOUP programme of research was designed to unpack the channels through which schooling might contribute to such an enhancement for young mothers in the two provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Key decisions concerning marriage and motherhood involve not only the woman's own cultural and social capital …
Schooling and domestic transitions
Transitions to adulthood are usually defined by markers such as leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child. Youth policy remains strongly influenced by these linear transitions, and by the metaphor of a ‘pathway’ from school to work and adulthood, taking little account of poverty, and the significance of micro-social changes within personal relations, which in many rur…
Trust and the regulation of pharmaceuticals
BACKGROUND: Building appropriate levels of trust in pharmaceuticals is a painstaking and challenging task, involving participants from different spheres of life, including producers, distributors, retailers, prescribers, patients and the mass media. Increasingly, however, trust is not just a national matter, but involves cross-border flows of knowledge, threats and promises. METHODS: Data for this paper comes from the project 'Tracing Pharmaceuti…
The enabling role of education in the lives of young people with disabilities in India
In India, the last few years have seen an increase in the school enrolment rates of children with disabilities; however, there are continuing concerns about the outcomes of these efforts, especially in terms of employment. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative enquiry into how young people (aged 15–30 years) with various impairments (namely, hearing, seeing and mobility) understand the role played by education in their lives. The rese…
Underserved and overdosed? Muslims and the Pulse Polio Initiative in rural north India
During the 2000s, confirmed polio cases in India have been increasingly localised in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar, especially amongst Muslim children. Muslims have also been at the sharp end of the Pulse Polio Initiative (PPI) and the associated ‘Underserved Strategy’ designed to counter civilian resistance to the programme. Our critique of the PPI draws on long-term research in rural UP and focuses on the programme's socio-political implications…
Diversity and Change in Modern India
India's society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India's growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The eleven chapters in this interdisciplinary volume review the growing body of data that help to make sense of these changes and to understand their likely significance. The volume provides systematic, macro-level studies of…
Only when the boat has started sinking
This paper uses a close reading of villagers' responses to the death in childbirth of a Muslim woman to raise questions about India's current policy emphasis on institutional delivery as a means of reducing maternal mortality. After introducing the context and methods of our research, we describe recent policy interventions related to maternal health, including the National Rural Health Mission established in 2005. We then outline villagers' comm…
Ethnographic Insights into Enduring Inequalities
This is a country where the poor fear tuberculosis, which kills 1,000 Indians a day, but people like me—middle-class people with access to health services that are probably better than England's—don't fear it at all. It's an unglamorous disease, like so much of the things that the poor of India endure (Adiga in Jefferies 2008)
School and madrasah education
This paper explores the cultural and economic strategies of educated but un/under‐employed young Muslim men aged between 20 and 34 in a village in western Uttar Pradesh, north India. Drawing on Connell's gender theory, the paper demonstrates how economic and political forces shape Muslim young men's strategies. The paper distinguishes between ‘school‐educated’ men, some of whom had studied in madrasahs for long periods, and the ‘madrasah‐educated…
Money itself discriminates
Citizenship rights in India are being transformed under economic liberalisation. In this article, we use obstetric crises to provide an entry point to explore recent changes in people's access to health care and their understandings of their civic rights and entitlements. We draw on our research in rural Bijnor district (Uttar Pradesh) between 1982 and 2005. Over this period, the state has increasingly failed to provide a safety net of emergency …
Dalit Revolution? New Politicians in Uttar Pradesh, India
This paper uses recent field research to challenge the widely held view that a “Dalit revolution” is occurring in North India. Drawing on two years' ethnographic research in a village in western Uttar Pradesh, the authors uncover the growing importance of a generation of local political activists among Dalits (former untouchables) while also showing that these young men have not been able to effect a broad structural transformation at the local l…
Disputing Contraception
In South Asia, Muslim reformers have often attempted to 'rationalize' and gentrify the everyday behaviour of ordinary Muslims. Yet, despite the existence of discussions of contraceptive techniques in theyūnān-ī tibbcurricula of 19th century India and the apparent affinity between rationalism and fertility regulation, contraception was rarely discussed in public debates involving Muslim reformers. In this paper we discuss some of the relationships…
Normal rubbish
This paper describes typifications of good and bad patients made by staff working in three English hospital Accident and Emergency departments, commonly known as Casualty departments. The staff explain or defend their behaviour and their hostile evaluations by accounts which in many respects parallel the classic description by Parsons of the sick role.1 The data presented are most easily interpreted as cases where certain sorts of patients are un…
When schooling fails
Scholarly discussions of formal education in the global South are increasingly moving away from a narrow focus on human capital to consider the meanings that people attach to 'being educated'. This article advances current debates on the social construction of educational value in South Asia by examining how educated Chamar (Dalit) young men reflect on their education in the face of poor occupational outcomes. Since the 1960s, Dalits' investment …
A Useless Thing!” or “Nectar of the Gods?” The Cultural Production of Education and Young Men's Struggles for Respect in Liberalizing North India
Drawing on fourteen months' ethnographic field research in western Uttar Pradesh among educated Dalit (ex‐untouchable) and Muslim young men, this article uncovers a crisis in educated people's access to salaried employment in rural north India. Against the grain of other studies of youth underemployment in postcolonial settings, we argue that educated Muslim and Dalit young men have reacted to their exclusion from secure white‐collar occupations …
The Social Life of Trees
The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment. Similarly, in the United States, the giant sequoia of California is an enduring national symbol that inspires intense feelings. As rainforests are sacrificed to the interests of multi-national corporations and traditional ways of life disappear, the status of forests, the cultural significance of …
Degrees without Freedom
This article considers the capacity of formal education to undermine established processes of caste and class reproduction in an area of north India, with particular reference to the views and strategies of educated Dalit young men. It draws on quantitative and qualitative research conducted by the authors in a village in Bijnor district, western Uttar Pradesh (UP). We discuss how educated Dalit young men perceive education, how they seek to use …
Islamization, Gentrification and Domestication
Girls' education has been enduringly controversial in north India, and the disputes of the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century still echo in debates about girls' education in contemporary India. In this paper, we reflect on the education of rural Muslim girls in contemporary western Uttar Pradesh (UP), by examining an Islamic course for girls [Larkiyon kā Islālmī Course], written in Urdu and widely used in madrasahs …
Only when the boat has started sinking
This paper uses a close reading of villagers' responses to the death in childbirth of a Muslim woman to raise questions about India's current policy emphasis on institutional delivery as a means of reducing maternal mortality. After introducing the context and methods of our research, we describe recent policy interventions related to maternal health, including the National Rural Health Mission established in 2005. We then outline villagers' comm…
Female infanticide and amniocentesis
Money itself discriminates
Citizenship rights in India are being transformed under economic liberalisation. In this article, we use obstetric crises to provide an entry point to explore recent changes in people's access to health care and their understandings of their civic rights and entitlements. We draw on our research in rural Bijnor district (Uttar Pradesh) between 1982 and 2005. Over this period, the state has increasingly failed to provide a safety net of emergency …
Girls' schooling and transition to marriage and motherhood
Enhanced young women's reproductive agency could contribute to much-needed improvements in reproductive and child health in Pakistan. The RECOUP programme of research was designed to unpack the channels through which schooling might contribute to such an enhancement for young mothers in the two provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Key decisions concerning marriage and motherhood involve not only the woman's own cultural and social capital …
Recongnizing India's Doctors
In 1975 the British General Medical Council ceased to recognize Indian medical degrees as sufficient qualification for practice as a doctor in Britain. For several years previously the G.M.C. had refused to grant automatic recognition to the degrees of the new Indian medical colleges, and this had soured relationships between the G.M.C. and its Indian counterpart, the Medical Council of India. In retaliation for the British move, the M.C.I. cease…
A Population Out of Control? Myths About Muslim Fertility in Contemporary India
Reproducing Difference? Schooling, Jobs, and Empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India
Schooling and domestic transitions
Transitions to adulthood are usually defined by markers such as leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child. Youth policy remains strongly influenced by these linear transitions, and by the metaphor of a ‘pathway’ from school to work and adulthood, taking little account of poverty, and the significance of micro-social changes within personal relations, which in many rur…
Disputing Contraception
In South Asia, Muslim reformers have often attempted to 'rationalize' and gentrify the everyday behaviour of ordinary Muslims. Yet, despite the existence of discussions of contraceptive techniques in theyūnān-ī tibbcurricula of 19th century India and the apparent affinity between rationalism and fertility regulation, contraception was rarely discussed in public debates involving Muslim reformers. In this paper we discuss some of the relationships…
Dalit Revolution? New Politicians in Uttar Pradesh, India
This paper uses recent field research to challenge the widely held view that a “Dalit revolution” is occurring in North India. Drawing on two years' ethnographic research in a village in western Uttar Pradesh, the authors uncover the growing importance of a generation of local political activists among Dalits (former untouchables) while also showing that these young men have not been able to effect a broad structural transformation at the local l…
Unmonitored Intrapartum Oxytocin Use in Home Deliveries
Intrapartum use of oxytocin should entail controlled dosages administered through infusion, continual monitoring of mother and fetus and surgical back-up, since several adverse outcomes have been reported. However, in Uttar Pradesh, north India, small-scale ethnographic studies as well as a large-scale retrospective survey have established that unmonitored intramuscular oxytocin injections are commonly given to birthing mothers to augment labour …
Underserved and overdosed? Muslims and the Pulse Polio Initiative in rural north India
During the 2000s, confirmed polio cases in India have been increasingly localised in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar, especially amongst Muslim children. Muslims have also been at the sharp end of the Pulse Polio Initiative (PPI) and the associated ‘Underserved Strategy’ designed to counter civilian resistance to the programme. Our critique of the PPI draws on long-term research in rural UP and focuses on the programme's socio-political implications…
Social Stratification
Authorship in multi-disciplinary, multi-national North-South research projects
The challenges of ensuring equity among partners of very different academic power and status, across continents, within complex research projects involving differing disciplines with their own norms, and balancing needs for capacity development of individuals and for institutions can be major sources of conflicts. While each of these concerns has been addressed separately, the implications of situations where they reinforce each other have not. D…
Social and political dominance in western UP
In our critique of a recent article by Sudha Pai (CIS vol. 34, no. 2) we argue that she provides inadequate evidence to support her case that there has been a dramatic change in dominance relationships in western UP. We identify problems of evidence in her claims about the significance of rising education of Chamars, and in the consequences of the changes that have taken place. We also suggest that her account of dominance needs to consider the e…
Allopathic medicine in India
Big-pharmaceuticalisation
The enabling role of education in the lives of young people with disabilities in India
In India, the last few years have seen an increase in the school enrolment rates of children with disabilities; however, there are continuing concerns about the outcomes of these efforts, especially in terms of employment. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative enquiry into how young people (aged 15–30 years) with various impairments (namely, hearing, seeing and mobility) understand the role played by education in their lives. The rese…
School and madrasah education
This paper explores the cultural and economic strategies of educated but un/under‐employed young Muslim men aged between 20 and 34 in a village in western Uttar Pradesh, north India. Drawing on Connell's gender theory, the paper demonstrates how economic and political forces shape Muslim young men's strategies. The paper distinguishes between ‘school‐educated’ men, some of whom had studied in madrasahs for long periods, and the ‘madrasah‐educated…
Allopathic medicine in India
Recongnizing India's Doctors
In 1975 the British General Medical Council ceased to recognize Indian medical degrees as sufficient qualification for practice as a doctor in Britain. For several years previously the G.M.C. had refused to grant automatic recognition to the degrees of the new Indian medical colleges, and this had soured relationships between the G.M.C. and its Indian counterpart, the Medical Council of India. In retaliation for the British move, the M.C.I. cease…
Normal rubbish
This paper describes typifications of good and bad patients made by staff working in three English hospital Accident and Emergency departments, commonly known as Casualty departments. The staff explain or defend their behaviour and their hostile evaluations by accounts which in many respects parallel the classic description by Parsons of the sick role.1 The data presented are most easily interpreted as cases where certain sorts of patients are un…
Medical Sociology in an Indian Setting
Female infanticide and amniocentesis
No Appointment Necessary
Health planning in India 1951–84
Detailed analysis of public sector health policy in India is rare. This paper contributes to the development of a more informed view of how policy is developed and implemented by presenting material on the overall pattern of central and state government health sector expenditures since 1951. In addition to financial information, there is a discussion of the processes involved and the roles of Ministries of Health and the Planning Commission. Thre…
Pharmaceuticals and health policy
Policies, Plans and People
The empty kit
Labor Pains and Labour Power
Essays on Anthropology and International Health
Labour Pains and Labour Power
The authors investigate childbearing in India as a socially organized phenomenon. By focussing on childbearing in two north Indian villages we demonstrate the dramatic impact of womens subordination on female reproductive health and the survival of young children especially girls....Our analysis also casts serious doubt on the current advocacy of schemes to train traditional birth attendants in north India....This book is based on data collected …
India Through Hindu Categories
Social Stratification
Population, Gender and Politics
Roger and Patricia Jeffery are well known for their work on religion and gender in South Asia. In their latest book, a study of the demographic processes of two castes in rural north India, they ask why fertility levels are higher among the Muslim Sheikhs than the Hindu Jats. They conclude that explanations can only partially be attributed to gender relationships and religion, and it is the economic and political interests of both groups which ar…
Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia
Schooling as Contraception? - Roger Jeffery and Alaka M Basu Girls' Schooling, Autonomy and Fertility Change - Alaka M Basu What Do These Words Mean in South Asia? Maternal Schooling and Fertility - John Cleland and Shireen Jejeebhoy Evidence from Censuses and Surveys Educational Attainment, Status Production and Women's Autonomy - Karuna Chanana A Study of Two Generations of Punjabi Women in New Delhi Women's Schooling and Autonomy as Factors in…
Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia
Population, Gender and Politics
The Social Life of Trees
The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment. Similarly, in the United States, the giant sequoia of California is an enduring national symbol that inspires intense feelings. As rainforests are sacrificed to the interests of multi-national corporations and traditional ways of life disappear, the status of forests, the cultural significance of …
On Misrepresentation in Academic Writing
Bollywood in Bijnor? Making an open university film in rural North India
This paper addresses the micro‐politics of filmmaking and is based on the authors’ experiences as academic consultants for an Open University film shot in two north Indian villages where the authors have worked since 1982. The consultant role entailed providing academic inputs, but also highlighted several uncomfortable issues. As members of the film crew, the authors engaged in crowd control, became gofers, and were required to behave in ways th…
Social and political dominance in western UP
In our critique of a recent article by Sudha Pai (CIS vol. 34, no. 2) we argue that she provides inadequate evidence to support her case that there has been a dramatic change in dominance relationships in western UP. We identify problems of evidence in her claims about the significance of rising education of Chamars, and in the consequences of the changes that have taken place. We also suggest that her account of dominance needs to consider the e…
A Population Out of Control? Myths About Muslim Fertility in Contemporary India
A Move From Minor to Major
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