What our health choices reveal about education, access and inequality in India
A cancelled “peptide party” in Bengaluru and a patient buying antibiotics across a chemist’s counter in Bhagalpur may appear to belong to two completely different Indias. Yet both point to a deeper question: how do people protect their health when the institutions around them shape very different choices?
The new MedicinMan research article, “A Tale of Two Cities: Peptides and Prescriptions,” by Anup Soans, argues that healthcare behaviour is not simply a matter of individual preference. It is also a product of education, economic security, access to healthcare and the institutional history of a place.
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