In the book Animal's people by Indra Sinha, the health care workers like Eli search for "normality" to return to their patients.

In what ways are standards of physical and mental health relative to the societies around the novel?

Of what value are the efforts to uphold "universal" health standards when people "don't need therapy so much as hope"?

Can foreign nationals who plan to leave make any substantive contribution to building such hope?

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