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标题：Healthcare Technology: A Domain of Inequality
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作者：Suman Hazarika ; Akhil Ranjan Dutta
期刊名称：Advances in Applied Sociology
印刷版ISSN：2165-4328
电子版ISSN：2165-4336
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：85-92
DOI：10.4236/aasoci.2013.32011
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：The prevailing perception that technological development facilitates universal empowerment and transcends the social domains of discriminations is now challenged by comprehensive studies. Technology itself is a domain of inequality and it accentuates more inequality with technology gradually favoring the privileged sections and the societies. The healthcare technology, which otherwise could have brought miracle achievements in attaining universal health standards, however, has failed to do so due to the inherent inequality in access to healthcare technology. The growing dominance of monopoly houses on healthcare technology and marginalization of indigenous health technology makes access to technology with a new domain of inequality. With comprehensive empirical data, the present paper investigates into this domain of inequality and argues that a move towards global well being demands a radical restructuring of the global domain of healthcare technology.
关键词：Antibiotics; Socioeconomic Status—SES; Prosthesis; Jaipur Foot; Heart Valve