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Historicizing The Emergence Of Global Mental Health In Nepal (1950-2019), Aidan Seale-Feldman
Historicizing The Emergence Of Global Mental Health In Nepal (1950-2019), Aidan Seale-Feldman
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This article traces a genealogy of mental health governance in Nepal as it was constituted in and through an assemblage of historical events, local politics, personal relationships and trends in the field of global health development. The relation between health development and local politics in Nepal is explored across four periods in the history of global health: 1) the early health development programs of disease eradication after the end of the Rana oligarchy (1951-1970); 2) the turn to primary health care during the Panchayat (1970-1990); 3) the rise of NGOs and the People’s War (1990-2010); and 4) the return to …