The Medicalization

Many contributions — engineering, political, economic, educational, and religious, in addition to medical — were part of the effort in the west. India’s public health efforts are being based on the assumption that medicine has all the answers. India’s population control program is an example. The program has a solitary focus, a single solution, that is, women’s fertility and sterilization. It does not examine the multifaceted interaction between livelihoods, social security, education, employment, and infant mortality, but continues to view sterilization of women as the only objective.