Eradicating Blindness

Download or read book Eradicating Blindness written by Logan D. A. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor. Their innovations contested economic and scientific norms, and spread from India and Nepal outwards to other countries in Africa and Asia, as well as the United States, Australia, and Finland. This feminist postcolonial global ethnography illustrates how these innovations have resulted in dual socio-technical systems to solve the problem of avoidable blindness. Policymakers and activists might use this example of how to avoid Schumacher's critique of low labor, large scale and implement Gandhi's philosophy of good for all.