Shahaduz Zaman carried out anthropological fieldwork in an orthopedic ward in alarge government teaching hospital of Bangladesh. The research shows that incontr... » 

Shahaduz Zaman carried out anthropological fieldwork in an orthopedic ward in alarge government teaching hospital of Bangladesh. The research shows that incontrast to the assumed universalism in biomedicine biomedical practice is infact a product of particular social conditions and the hospital in which ittakes place reflects the features of the society in which it is embedded. Ashocking and humorous study this work shows how medical practice takes shapein an understaffed underresourced and underfinanced hospital in a lowincome country characterized by daily physical and structural violence. «