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Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics
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Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by David Hardiman (Editor); Projit Mukharji (Editor)


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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.

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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  • Title Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics
  • Author David Hardiman (Editor); Projit Mukharji (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2012-06-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780415502412 / 0415502411
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Medicine, Traditional - India, Medicine, Traditional - history - India
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011051622
  • Dewey Decimal Code 615.509

About the author

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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