Occupational health, risk and science in India's global factories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12985409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Cro (0000-0002-0721-0786, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-238 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian History and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1947-2498 • E-ISSN: 1947-2501 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19472491003592912 |
| OpenAlex | W2070689757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article explores the relationship between health, culture and society in contemporary India by examining how occupational health risks are constructed and circulate at new sites of industrial production. This article argues that these sites of global industry can offer an important contribution to debates about the political economy of science, biomedicine and public health by revealing notions of risk that are neither scientific nor public but variously and simultaneously empirical, calculating, affective, relational and structural. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in a large-scale diamond manufacturing unit in a special economic zone in Andhra Pradesh, I show how biomedical and scientific knowledge, technocratic codes of conduct, the forces of global competition, craft knowledge and the lived experience of labour under conditions of economic insecurity all figure in an understanding and evaluation of risk
Biomedicine · Competition (biology · Craft · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Technocracy · Unit (ring theory · Anthropology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Employment and Welfare Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Occupational Health and Safety Research
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Future health systems
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |