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Health and citizenship in the political mobilisation of junior doctors and medical professionals in Pakistan.

Datum
04. Feb­ru­ar 2025 

Vir­tu­al LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Seminar 


Dr Ayaz Qureshi, Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh: „Health and cit­i­zen­ship in the polit­i­cal mobil­i­sa­tion of junior doc­tors and med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in Pakistan”
LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Seminar
4th Feb­ru­ary 2025, 16.00–17.15gmt
on zoom only: https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/97522728066

„Health and cit­i­zen­ship in the polit­i­cal mobil­i­sa­tion of junior doc­tors and med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in Pakistan”

Doc­tor activism in Pak­istan was trig­gered by legal amend­ments over pub­lic sec­tor hos­pi­tal auton­o­my. Doc­tors have seen these reforms as a form of stealth pri­vati­sa­tion which is like­ly to make pub­lic hos­pi­tals less acces­si­ble to the poor. Unlike in the extant research on med­ical mobil­i­sa­tion, Pak­istan has seen doc­tor activists shut­ting down hos­pi­tals, boy­cotting out­pa­tient depart­ments, organ­is­ing sit-ins out­side gov­ern­ment build­ings, and com­ing out on the streets. Such activism shows doc­tors tran­scend­ing their clin­i­cal roles or when they are expect­ed to draw upon their clin­i­cal objec­tiv­i­ty to con­struct them­selves as moral observers diag­nos­ing the ail­ing body of the nation (Bay­ou­mi and Hamdy 2023). For doc­tor-activists, I sug­gest, the clin­i­cal and civic roles may inter­twine in ways that com­pli­cate the con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tion of (bio­med­ical) cit­i­zen­ship. This pre­sen­ta­tion is based on pre­lim­i­nary find­ings from my ongo­ing ethno­graph­ic work in Pakistan.

Dr Ayaz Qureshi is a Senior Lec­tur­er at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh, Unit­ed King­dom. He is the author of ‘AIDS in Pak­istan: Bureau­cra­cy, Pub­lic Goods and NGOs’, which is the first full-length study of HIV/AIDS work in rela­tion to gov­ern­ment and NGOs. He has writ­ten exten­sive­ly of on health and devel­op­ment in Pak­istan. A full list can be found at his uni­ver­si­ty pro­file page: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/ayaz-qureshi#publications. He is cur­rent­ly lead­ing a Well­come Trust fund­ed project on the role of med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in health pol­i­cy in Pakistan.