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    No Dignity, No Rights but Filth Forever: Manual Scavengers in Photographs
    (2019) Naomi Barton; Photographer-Sudhakar Olwe
    This Photo essay documents the state of manual scavengers at 16 locations across the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh with a specific focus on women. It shows the deplorable condition of women and families trapped in the stranglehold and vicious cycle of caste based occupation of manual scavenging. Besides, it depicts systemic disempowerment and how we have become insensate to modern day slavery of manual scavenging.
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    The Long Road to the Sugarcane Fields
    (2017) M.N. Parth
    The case study shows how agrarian crisis combined with lack of subsistence due to unavailability of work in villages of Beed District has induced mass migration of workers to seek work as an agricultural labourer in the Sugarcane fields. Besides, it highlights social disruptions and economic distress it has induced in workers lives and its consequences for their health.
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    The Story of Selvi and Gopalan. The Last Resort: Why Patients with Severe Mental Disorders go to Therapeutic Shrines In India. From the Book- Restoring Mental Health in India: Pluralistic Therapies and Concepts
    (2009) Brigitte Sebastia
    The case study explores various pertinent questions pertaining to people with mental disorders and the therapeutic route their family members choose. Besides, it explores when and why religious therapy is chosen for treatment of mental disorders and place of religious therapy. Why people visit therapeutic shrines and reasons for choosing religious therapy. The case study also deliberates upon the practice of Psychiatry and history of various treatment practices for patients with mental disorders involving double treatment combining religious therapy and medicine. It illuminates medical pluralism, stereotyping gender question, religion and science.
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    Obesity Prevention in Children: Media Campaigns, Stigma and Ethics. (From the Book-Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe)
    (2016) Erika Blacksher; D.H. Barret et al. (Edited)
    This case study raises issues of vulnerability, stigma, State coercion and intrusion in personal choices in designing media campain and strategies for prevention of obesity among children. It highlights ethical issues and challenges of health communication.
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    Voluntary or Regulated? The Trans Fat Campaign in New York City
    (2012) Lisa Armstrong
    This case study explores the details of how decisions are made on a specific policy intervention. Who all are the actors and stakeholders involved in the process. It shows the interaction of science, ethics, politics and ethical issues in policy making. It also highlights preventive, promotive and curative aspects of chronic illnesses.
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    Empowering Marginalized Indigenous Communities through the Monitoring of Public Health Care Servies in Guatemala
    (2014) Walter Flores; Lorena Ruano
    The case study shows how Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be used to involve excluded population in changing social conditions. It further shows how PAR can be used to make Health System responsive and provide better health care services in terms of availability and access to resources and reducing maltreatment.
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    Voices from the Ground: Photovoice Research on Children's Health in the Indian Sundarbans
    (2016) Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR)
    This is a photovoice research that helps to capture the voices of mothers on the direct and indirect determinants of health of their children and communicate this information within their communities and to the decision makers. Malnutrition among their children was an issue of great concern expressed by the women. Besides, mothers health during pregnancy and ill health due to Non-Communicable diseases was also highlighted during the discussions.
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    The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story
    (2010) A.Revathi; Geetha (Translator)
    This Case story (Autobiography) is journey of Revathi (a transgender woman) beginning from her upbringing as a boy in a small village in Salem to her becoming a woman. It highlights her own feelings and desires, struggles, humiliation and indignation towards the sexual and structural violence afflicted by her own family and society towards her and the hijra community. It showcases her unflinching courage to fight violence and humiliation within her family and in the outside world.
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    Citizen Monitoring to Promote the Right to Health Care and Accountability
    (2014) Ariel Frisancho; Maria Luisa Vasquez
    This Case Study highlights the role of citizen monitoring and engagement in designing and implementation of social policies and building a transparent and accountable health care system. It shows how a strategic alliance between citizen and civil society combined with international human rights framework can be used to strenghten the capacity of rural women's agency and improve the quality of health care services at the local level.
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    Living in The Rooms by the Looms
    (2018) Reetika Revathy Subramanian
    The case study of powerloom workers are stories of somatization, grief and suffering. It highlights deplorable and abusive living and working conditions of migrant workers leading to high morbidity and mortality. The case study shows how social and occupational context determines how biological body would behave. It also highlights the myths of migration in search of decent livelihood.