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    Women, Body Politics and the Dominant Health Discourses: A Sociological Study in Orrisa
    (University of Hyderabad, 2009) Biswal, Madhllmita ; Purendra prasad, N
    The study attempts to explain how health discourses contribute towards maintaining the gender inequality by constructing women's body and reproductive roles in particular ways. In order to examine different health discourses, the study has focllsed OR the state health discourse, as wen as the community discourse of health. The focus of these discrete discourses not only provide different arenas for understanding health paradigms vis-a.-vis women's body and gender roles, but suggests how these discourses are interlinked through their patriarchal hegemony.
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    Communities, Tradition and Politics of Risk: A Study of HIV I AIDS in Coastal Andhra
    (University of Hyderabad, 2009) JENA, ASlMA ; Purendra Prasad, N.
    Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is recogmzed as a pubhc health discourse as well as a developmental Issue. The growing prevalence of HI VIA IDS poses a senous social and economIC threat It is esbmated that about 5 7 mtlhon people live With HlV infectlon m India and one of every eight people With HIV mfectlon [Stembrook 2007' 1089]. Given India's large populatIOn, HIV/AIDS call assume threatenmg proportIOns. The other co-related factor IS that It affects the country's economic development and growth smce more number of youth are mcreasmgly gettmg affected by the disease It IS m thiS context, that one needs to examme how Indian state responded to the emergence of HIVI AIDS m India, how policy deCISions With regard to HIVI AIDS were made and the role played by the intemabonal donor agencies smcethe mceptlon ofthe·dlsease mInd,"
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    Culture of Consumption in Urban India: A Study of the Middle Class in Hyderabad
    (University of Hyderabad, 2005-10-01) Hema, Malini ; Laxminarayan, K
    Braudel, in his three-volume work, The Wheels of Commerce gives a fascinating account of the economic processes of the world and of the development of capitalism since the early 15th and 16th centuries. The second volume deals solely with the issue of consumption. He examines consumption of material culture, which has developed as part of capitalist process of development. Consumption, according to Falk (1995:95) means using up, expenditure, and eating - generic concepts to do with natural and cultural life processes. According to Williams (1985:78), the word 'consume' had "an unfavorable sense, it meant to destroy, to use up, to waste, (and) to exhaust". One also consumes to survive. In this regard, the idea of production is not far behind. What is consumed also needs to be produced. As a twosome, consumption and production can be situated historically to gather insights into economies and societies. Consumption, according to Appadurai (1995 :79), evolves as "the phenomenological marker of time left over from work, produced by work, and justified by work". Consumption is what comes after work, it's the leisure time well deserved which constitutes consumption. Production is situated in the economic base as in the mode of production, while consumption as a process is situated in the superstructure comprising of such things as culture. In this sense, consumption is epiphenomenal. However, the two are interrelated. One is either always involved in the production process or is engaged in consumption.
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    Caste, class and labour : Study of changing agrarian relations in a Telangana village
    (University of Hyderabad, 2018-12-30) Bhoopathi Reddy, B. ; Purendra Prasad, N.
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