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Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Editat de David Hardiman, Projit Mukharji
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 2015
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.
Focusing on those who exist and practice in the shadow of statist medicine, the book discusses the many ways in which they try to heal a range of maladies, and how they experience their marginality. The contributors also provide a history of such therapeutics, in the process challenging the widespread belief that such ‘traditional’ therapeutics are relatively static and unchanging. In focusing on these problems of transition, they open up one of the central concerns of subaltern historiography. This is an important contribution to the history of medicine and society, and subaltern and South Asian studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138948297
ISBN-10: 1138948292
Pagini: 204
Ilustrații: 6 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Agendas Guy Attewell, David Hardiman, Helen Lambert and Projit Bihari Mukharji  2. Introduction David Hardiman and Projit Mukharji  3. Community, State, and the Body: Epidemics and Popular Culture in Colonial India Dipesh Chakrabarty  4. "Pain in all the Wrong Places": The Experience of Biomedicine among the Ongee of Little Andaman Islands Vishvajit Pandya  5. Chandshir Chikitsha: A Nomadology of Subaltern Medicine Projit Bihari Mukharji  6. Wrestling with Tradition: Towards a Subaltern Therapeutics of Bonesetting and Vessel Treatment in North India Helen Lambert  7. A Subaltern Christianity: Faith Healing in Southern Gujarat David Hardiman  8. The Modernising Bhagat Gauri Raje  9. The Politics of Poison: Healing, Empowerment and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century India David Arnold

Notă biografică

David Hardiman is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include the Indian peasantry, tribal movements in India, medical history, and Gandhi and nonviolent resistance.
Projit Bihari Mukharji is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests include subaltern sciences, everyday technologies, vernacularized "western" sciences and modernized "indigenous" knowledge traditions in South Asia.

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Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.