Professional Niche Differentiation: Understanding Dai (Traditional Midwife) Survival in Rural Rajasthan

Prescribing medicine, providing contraception, delivering babies – although we may turn to physicians, rural Rajasthani women turn to Barefoot Doctors out of necessity. Such care is available courtesy of the Barefoot College, a pioneering NGO that transforms the skills of the illiterate poor into lo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharmeen Azher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-04-01
Series:The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts
Subjects:
dai
Online Access:http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/240