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Ethics of Care and Health Policy Change: Indian women's movement mobilizes against quinacrine sterilization

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Nalini Visvanathan looks at how the campaign around banning quinacrine in India shows the importance of ethics of care over utilitarian approaches to women's reproductive health.

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    Nalini Visvanathan

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Visvanathan, N. Ethics of Care and Health Policy Change: Indian women's movement mobilizes against quinacrine sterilization. Development 42, 64–69 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110086

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