Special Treatment. My book.
"In the first-ever ethnography of AIIMS, Anna Ruddock considers prestige as a byproduct of norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, and class in modern India, and illustrates how the institution's reputation affects its students' present experiences and future career choices. Ruddock untangles the threads of intellectual exceptionalism, social and power stratification, and health inequality that are woven into the health care taught and provided at AIIMS, asking what is lost when medicine is used not as a social equalizer but as a means to cultivate and maintain prestige."
REPORTS
Energy Impairment and Disability Inclusion: Towards an advocacy movement for Energy Limiting Chronic Illness (ELCI). DOWNLOAD
I Feel Forgotten: The impact of COVID-19 on people with chronic illness. DOWNLOAD
Disbelief and Disregard: Gendered experiences of healthcare for people with energy limiting conditions. DOWNLOAD
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2022
The ‘Indian Predicament’: Medical Education and the Nation in India, 1880-1956. (Book chapter).
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2021
Understanding the Role of Lady Health Workers in Improving Access to Eye Health Services in Rural Pakistan–Findings from a Qualitative Study. | Archives of Public Health.
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Task-Shifting Eye Care to Ophthalmic Community Health Officers (OCHO) in Sierra Leone: A Qualitative Study. | Journal of Global Health.
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Diabetic retinopathy service delivery and integration into the health system in Pakistan—Findings from a multicentre qualitative study. | PLOS ONE.
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2020
Moving the global disability agenda forward with scarce data | Lancet Global Health.
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WEBINARS AND TALKS
A short animation sharing the findings of the Disbelief and Disregard study led by the University of Liverpool, funded by the BA/Leverhulme.
In this webinar, Catherine Hale and I share the work of Chronic Illness Inclusion and introduce the concept of energy-limiting conditions. The webinar was hosted by City University in 2021.
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What if everyone really did have the chance to thrive? That’s the world I choose to imagine. If you share a similar vision, I’d love to work with you.
