Eradicating Blindness: Global Health Innovation from South Asia

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Introduction  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 1-35
 Origins of an Autonomous Global Network to Eradicate Blindness  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 37-75
 Balancing the Scales: Appropriate Technology and Social Entrepreneurship  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 77-109
 Witnessing Rural Blindness: Standardizing Benchmarks from Eye Camps  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 111-144
 A Laboratory of Our Own: Technology Diffusion from the Incumbent Regime  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 145-180
 The Hard Case of White Cataracts: Appropriation of Surgical Science  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 181-215
 Training the New Cadre: Translation of Interlocking Innovations  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 217-251
 Evidence-Based Medicine: Contesting the Phaco-Regime  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 253-287
 Conclusion: Innovation from Below  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 289-313
 Appendix A: The Extended Case Method and Global Ethnography  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 315-331
 Appendix B: The Robin Hood Model  (Logan D. A. Williams)....Pages 333-352
Back Matter ....Pages 353-369